Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eagleton affair will not be remembered as a tragedy. George McGovern, as Senator Eagleton is quick to acknowledge, has so much to offer our country that anything or anyone who might conceivably dim his chances is a liability to us all. It is with great anticipation that I await a fresh, open Government. I can smell the fragrance of victory behind McGovern's determination to run with the best mate possible, despite the momentary discomfort...
...possession that Jimmie covets above all is a white wife. When he gets one-a dim, sniveling, pregnant teenager whose child does not even turn out to be his-a murderous rage is born. Jimmie realizes that the white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...
...aliens to his mind-"strangers"-they aroused his fear and consequently his hate. But after making Shakespeare out to be a conscious bigot, Fiedler argues that Shakespeare, quite unconsciously, had delved into "stereotypes and myths, impulses and attitudes" that "still persist in the dark corners of our hearts, the dim periphery of our dreams." So Shakespeare is both guilty and not guilty, a peculiar ambivalence that unsettles the whole book...
...figure of preposterous melodrama-a glowering, gun-toting saloonkeeper named Greaser (Albert Henderson) who keeps his mother behind bars ("You'll always be my favorite," she reassures him) and who suffers from chronic constipation. His trips to the privy are state occasions, with his retinue of dim-witted subordinates nervously circling outside, awaiting glad tidings of relief that are never forthcoming...
...Felsenstein at the famed Komische Oper in East Berlin. Yet nobody seemed prepared for what appeared when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf lowered his baton for the overture. Tenor Hugh Beresford wandered over a barren wooden platform; instead of a balletic orgy, there was a huge human brain populated with frightening, dim figures miming psychiatric problems ranging from infantilism to sadomasochism. Venus arrived looking like a Reeperbahn stripper...