Word: geniality
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...interpret his plays, a good guide is a necessity. He exists in Martin Esslin (The Peopled Wound; Doubleday; $5.95). Author of The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: The Man and His Work, Esslin is a genial host of a critic. He shares an avant-garde playwright with his readers in the same enthusiastic way that he might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about...
...Crimson soccer team flew down to Long Island Saturday to play in a friendly scrimmage with a highly-touted amateur team, the Lindenhurst Soccer Club. Lindenhurst was so friendly that it allowed the Crimson to score six goals; Harvard, not so genial, allowed only one goal...
President Thieu decided to move against the veterans after a recent gun battle in Saigon between police and hugs belonging to one of several veterans' groups. The shootout gave Thieu he excuse he needed to launch a genial crackdown that, he hopes, will curb disturbances by veterans until long-overdue reforms defuse their discontent...
...children in the fifth grade in the schools of St. Louis can cogitate better with your myriads of words. I have no suggestions to your program because it is very apropos. You also must be a very genial man. Ordinarily children don't like these kinds of programs, but this time they are overwhelmed...
...Addonizio, a seven-term member of Congress and mayor since 1962, has built a reputation of being liberal on racial matters. In this election he has decorated the city with bland "Peace and Progress" posters, but in his speeches he has turned more and more to race. Relaxed and genial as always in private conversation, he commutes from his trial to tell campaign audiences that Gibson is "part of a raw and violent conspiracy to turn this city over to LeRoi Jones and his extremist followers." Black Militant Jones, whose violence-filled plays and poems frighten many whites...