Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like so many of the plays of its era, Holiday today seems an unsettled mixture of the proudly naughty and the primly didactic; when the women aren't smoking, they're apt to be decrying various social ills. This new production likewise straddles two worlds: the here and now, a...
Ives' goodness is tested, as it inevitably must be, by tragedy. His son is randomly gunned down at Christmastime in 1967, and Ives spends years withdrawn and numb. Unlike Macon Leary, whose child suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in...
Out of the poverty of means then available to an American painter, Copley had created a counterpart to the plain, didactic neoclassical style that Jacques-Louis David used in his portrait of the Lavoisiers: earnestness, probity, equality, set forth within the frame of marriage, an Ideal Republic of two. In...
"Wild Strawberries" wins its audience's sympathy by placing them and the protagonist in the same predicament. Characters and audience alike are all trying to make sense of Isak's life, to understand how such an outwardly successful old man could be so inwardly confused. The narration does not take...
The Specter campaign booth was directly opposite that of Pat Buchanan, both in physical and spiritual presence. That is, Buchanan's exclusionary, didactic, isolationist, reactionary vision of America holds almost no parallels to Specter's moderate and reasonable conservatism. Yet Buchanan Deputy Campaign Manager Timothy J. Haley holds his opponent...