Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last quibble with the direction concerns the final Requiem scene by Willy's grave. It was staged as a symbolic rite, and I don't think Miller intended it that way. I think he meant for each character to view Willy in death as they had in life--each through his or her particular sense of what is possible and what is not. In this scene, as elsewhere in the play, the intensity does not arise from an inattention to the ordinary details of our lives. It comes because we are forced to witness the mediocrity of our lives, even...
...Lewis, 65, he talked about them in more optimistic terms. Lewis concentrated his attacks on multinational corporations, which he described as the root of all economic evil. Stanfield, who in two earlier elections was defeated by Trudeau, claimed that the country's economy was in such grave trouble that immediate wage and price freezes should be imposed. That hardly endeared him to his more conservative supporters, and since the poor showing of such controls in both the U.S. and Britain, the proposal struck many voters as being unrealistic. But Trudeau chose to emphasize the country's existing strengths...
...said one of Spain's leading editors last week. "Now there is a lot of looking into the future. The trouble is that all you see is a giant vacuum. Like any good dictator, Franco has made sure there is no successor." That failing could some day mean grave trouble for Spain...
...steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite) kill each other. He composes a jazzy lyric for "Kid Punch" Miller, who played trumpet with Jelly Roll Morton, and a kind of epitaph for a Pueblo Indian grave robber beset by legal problems and liquor...
...century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least some limits to growth must be expected. The feeling of having reached a frontier, a limit of possibility, brings on grave anxieties and confronts politicians with an issue that they sidestepped for years: if there is no longer an ever-expanding pie, how are the portions to be parceled...