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...only things modern man can grasp are that he possesses a body and that this body has desires which must be satisfied and a life which must be prolonged. In the desolate landscape of modernity, any concerns other than those of the body have no place...
...installing himself in the top spot. Director David Yunich, retired vice chairman of R.H. Macy, says that O'Donnell's 1 1/2- hour presentation was "incoherent." At one point, Yunich reports, O'Donnell volunteered that he had been "kicked out of" Columbia Business School and thus had a weak grasp of finance. Says Yunich: "We couldn't figure out whether this person had flipped his lid or not." O'Donnell says he was merely passing on Claremont's unsolicited buy-out proposal and had thus done nothing wrong...
...being misunderstood once again. He expresses hope that Nathan's putative death in the novel will discourage people from reading his fiction as autobiography, but he is not optimistic. "I write about what could have happened," he says, "not what did happen. Why that's so hard to grasp I don't understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past the first paragraph without veering off into something that didn't happen, which is always more interesting. I'm highly sensitive to boredom...
...effect is a powerful display of theater's seductive capacity to disparage illusion one moment, then compellingly restore it the next. Still, many Cambridge viewers remain baffled. They appear not to grasp that most of the scenario is Pirandello's rather than Brustein's and that despite the title, most is scripted rather than improvised. By Brustein's standards, the show is a success: it arouses rather than coddles audiences, forcing them to ponder the nature of theater -- not least the potential for being manipulated while happily submerged in a story. Says Brustein: "Audiences are responding correctly: they are being...
...inventiveness, we are now in a position to keep a body functioning as a biological organism without allowing it real life. We know everything about sex, except how to keep teenage girls from pregnancy. We are on the verge of being able to juggle our genes without the slightest grasp of the emotional consequences. If I have a fatal brain tumor, I know exactly where to go for the best mechanical support. But who will tell me how to face my death...