Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which marriage necessitates. This problem is worked out with skill and directness but in so doing Mr. Barry frequently forgets that his characters are human and cannot be shunted about like chess-men. There is an abstract mechanical quality to the play, an over emphasis of problem and serious disregard of essential human complexities. Few human beings can be resolved into one dominant characteristic and this is what happens to the people of "Bright Star...
...Canal Convention of 1888 provided that the Canal remain open to all, in peace and war. But Great Britain then stipulated that so long as she occupied Egypt, she might disregard the Convention if it conflicted with British and Egyptian interests. Thus, during the World War, Great Britain practically seized the Canal, made it a British waterway. The British protectorate over Egypt expired in 1922, but Egyptian defense remains a British responsibility...
...rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered the crime, just out of prison for another misdeed. There is the judge (Richard Bennett...
...think we can safely disregard the skeptics...
...also disregard those who are actuated by a spirit of political partisanship or by a willingness to gain or retain personal profit at the expense of, and detriment to, their neighbors...