Word: detachedness
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Not a bad idea, and not altogether conventional or acceptable. But for a brief moment, Frank Reynolds broke the age-old notion of the unemotional, stolid newsreader, seemingly detached from all that he sees and does. He proved that he was hardly part of a dying breed--above all, he...
DIED. Maxie Leroy Anderson, 48, daredevil, eye-patched balloonist who captured the world's delighted attention in 1978 when he and two fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining...
Oarsmen don't even see the end of the race--they're facing the other way, detached from the action they create themselves. In the last 50 meters of an even race it boils down to faith. Faith in the cox, faith in oneself to endure, and, yes, faith in...
Brecht's theory, which he called "Epic" theater, involves incorporating the audience into the production by leaving them somewhat detached and thus more capable of learning a lesson from the play. The Brechtian audience ideally should leave the theater saying not, "Wow, that was a moving play," but rather. "I...
WHILE IT IS CLEAR that director Osius knows his Bercht, it is also clear that he underestimates the intricacy of this particular Brechtian work. The HRDC's Mother Courage succeeds on the first levels it incorporates all of the Brechtian techniques of alienation and it leaves the audience feeling detached...