Word: glibbest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glibbest assumption about Pinter-that he dramatizes the severed communication lines of modern man-is the least accurate. Not inability to communicate but unwillingness to communicate is his central theme. He argues: "I think that we communicate only too well, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." And so, to Pinter's people, speech is a strategy for escaping detection. They reverse their statements and talk past other people...