Word: fulcrum
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...journal entry is the fulcrum of the play, and it intervenes like a deux-ex-Olivetti, imposing an arbitrary happy ending without being psychologically convincing. Like most writers, poor Richard may have been an edgy, self-absorbed husband, but two people who live together for any length of time read each other, without needing the assurance of posthumous journals. Jean Kerr knows this and says as much when she has a character remark that the present generation thinks love "isn't real unless we have a fever...
...former Ambassador to India said that India's neutrality was the fulcrum of her foreign policy. By remaining in the strong position of aloof neutrality, India could pit her weight with any side in world bargaining...
Poor Percy is the emotional fulcrum of the play, and probably says more to an English than to an American playgoer. Britain's Dyer is not an angry playwright, but he shares the current British theatrical fervor for discovering the lower classes. This social ferment is a quarter of a century out of phase with the U.S. experience of the Depression that animated the old Group Theater's concept of the hero as ultra common man. The sad truth is that the Percys of the world are the small beer of the drama, and in two hours they...
These are not mere party wings, claims Burns; their differences are institutional and ideological. The power fulcrum of the presidential parties is the national convention, where they dominate rank-and-file delegates. "The Robert Tafts and the Lyndon Johnsons usually do not win at Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned...
...plot -- the interaction of the destinies of King Richard himself and of Bolingbroke who becomes Henry IV. We see Richard high on one end of a seesaw, and Bolingbroke on the other. And we sit mesmerized as we witness the inexorable and almost ritualistic shifts of the fulcrum from the force of incident or public opinion, until Bolingbroke finally rises to throne level. Superimposed on this is the further manic-depressive seesawing within Richard's own being...