Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pieces like Luther, and now A Patriot for Me. The plays are seriously defective-partly because Osborne's own voice is badly muffled, and partly because he cannot work up the passion to breathe an inner life into these works. A further drawback is that he has a high-school-pageant idea of history. Everything moves episodically, in jerky vignettes, with time as a cardboard backdrop. The characters are not immersed in history, they merely wear it like a costume...
...officer corps of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lieutenant Alfred Redl (Maximilian Schell) is a kind of self-made upstart in the imperial army, with such class handicaps as a railway-clerk father. By dint of hard work and undemonstrated brilliance, Redl rises to high military and social rank and becomes deputy chief of the army's espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer, he is blackmailed by Russian intelligence into turning traitor. At play...
...directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident companies has been camouflaged by some New York drama critics, who put down Broadway commercialism and confect gorgeous fictions about the distinguished dramatic art and high esthetic integrity that they have discovered in Nome, Keokuk and the lower Gaspé Peninsula...
...students separately enter a room and take facing seats at a table. But neither knows the other is there; an opaque screen three feet high stands between them, obscuring the view. All that each student has been told is that he will meet someone and be expected to carry on a conversation with him. All that is known about the students, as the result of previous psychological testing, is that one is more dominant a personality than the other. Abruptly, the screen is lifted, and the students confront each other across the table. Will the dominant or the submissive...
That is nearly as high as hens (.9), which forge their chains of command in a way that has become a behavioral cliché-the pecking order. But it was accomplished in considerably less time than chickens normally take. The applications seem endless: say, in replenishing command vacancies in governments and armies, in selecting the properly submissive evening companion from a cocktail-party crowd or in determining ahead of time whether you or your opponent is likely to have the upper hand in a debate...