Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected any hard thinking on the issues facing this nation, you will be disappointed...
...Golden Screw pretends to be innovative and exciting theater. The hero never speaks. He (occasionaly with other characters), merely sings in between dialogues which are directed at or about him, but in which he never participates. A one sided conversation is hard enough to pull off on stage. Given Sankey's trite dialogue, Alice Roach's direction, which is unobtrusive to the point of negligence, and M.I.T.'s incompetent actors, who tend to point their hands a lot and look bored on stage, the results was worse than a class play at P.S. 451--children are cute at least...
...sets out to destroy it. In The Third Lover, Mercier, a writer jealous of the marriage of a more successful author, ruins their lives by unmasking the wife's infidelity, thus indirectly causing her death. The Champagne Murders, while sharing this theme, is immensely more complex, mind-bendingly hard to fathom. Substituted for the romantic dream-world of the student in Les Godulereaux or the marriage in The Third Lover is this harmony of tensions between Paul, Chris, and Christine. Perhaps only unconsciously aware of the degree to which they thrive on it, Paul and Chris work to preserve...
...forced to abandon the old philosophical principle of the duality of good and evil. We find a new duality, an immediate polarity between body -- including brain -- and non-body, between the gross private tyranny of the coarse machine Enderby must serve every minute of his life and the hard bright indifference of that panorama of people and places outside. Ranged against each other, equally complex, equally demanding masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author...
...cabs have the kind of appeal that is hard to equal. Heads turn whenever he drives by. Katz has sold his black Austin cabs to banks, restaurants, men's clothing stores ,and a few individuals on a spur-of-the-moment basis...