Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Articulate the Concerns of their Time, whose books are eventually parsed to death in intellectual history seminars and who are very thoroughly forgotten by everyone who neither pays nor is paid to read them. Such are Barbara Garson and her skitlet MacBird (I eschew the exclamation point!)--a document, a gadget, a pseudo-cerebral mummers' play in moral blackface. The fact that MacBird's concerns are nearly as unmemorable as its era may prove to be won't modify the play's appeal for future historians; nor can it extend MacBird's predictable stage life beyond eighteen months...
...drastically inhumane play by virtue of taste and skillful joining, but the blood-spoor lingers on the air. MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both to implicate and to absolve its audience; the result is an experience of bland and almost complete detachment, and a document in the history of this tired old polis where agent and activity, critic and establishment, medium and message, are pathlogically identical...
...returning to their homes in Israel or accepting indemnity payments instead. Until now, Israel has always refused to consider such a solution. "To return to Israel hundreds of thousands of Arabs conditioned to hate it and incited to engineer its extinction," in the words of an official government document, "could only be an invitation to suicide." But would it? Many responsible Arabs believe that only a relatively few refugees would choose to live under Israeli rule, and that most would be content to receive payments that would enable them to settle permanently in Arab lands...
...fate. Soon immersed in the book, which is banned in Russia, she found that it affected her like "a squall of rain and snow, like an avalanche, like a hurricane." Suffused with Pasternak's lan guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition of Russian literature has a direct descendant in the daughter of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva...
...debate, study and revision, the United Presbyterian Church last week approved the "Confession of 1967"-the first new Presbyterian creed in 320 years. By a 4-to-l margin, the 829 delegates to the 179th General Assembly in Portland, Ore., voted to accept the Confession, a 4,500-word document that commits the church, in the name of Christ, to labor for such causes as world peace and the elimination of poverty and injustice, and describes the Bible as simply the "witness without parallel" to God's word rather than his inerrant utterance...