Word: disinterested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melvin orders his life simply. He experiences and reacts, oblivious to his effect on others. Incapable of malice, Melvin lives as if he took the Declaration of Independence a little too literally; he pursues tomorrow's happiness with a blissful disinterest about next week's. Yet Goldman makes sure that the audience does not confuse Melvin's simplicity with simple-mindedness. Living in a world of milk trucks with plastic cows, game shows with applause signs and gas stations with undulating tire displays, Melvin merely serves as the prism through which we view these and other tragi-comic forces...
...resolve similar problems, AMNLAE and the defense committees run discussion groups that resemble North American consciousness-raising sessions. In these workshops, women are encouraged to work with their men to dissuade them from "counterrevolutionary" ways. Reyes says men may participate in these functions. But few do--because of disinterest. "It's not that we're hostile towards them or vice-versa," Reyes hastens to assure. "Our approach is not to confront or alienate these men, but to work with them...
Harrington's career provides a good benchmark for charting the rise of disinterest. When he wrote The Other America in the early '60s, almost everyone, including congress, listened. Decade of Decision, issued earlier this year and just as full of the hope and despair of American life as his earlier work, already carpets remainder tables coast to coast...
...projects a well-rounded portrayal of the man who opts to be "the old monster" to his troupe, declaring "If I listened to my heart, it would break." Without resorting to flaming mannerisms, Bates suggests perfectly the character's homosexuality; he touches women, even when affectionate, with a reserved disinterest. Admittedly, Diaghilev has all the good lines; chiding Nijinsky for eating too much candy, he warns, "Nobody loves a fat faun...