Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the head-on collision between the state's two most powerful politicians is a clash of the New South vs. the Old. Hunt, 46, is a consensus seeker and problem solver. Though he has little flair for oratory and not much of a sense of humor, his following ranges from impoverished blacks to progressive educators and white businessmen struggling for economic growth. Even Republicans concede that Hunt has run the state well, attracting $13 billion in new business investment, adding 207,000 new jobs, improving roads and schools...
...with sweeping and dynamic gestures, booming tones, and a demonic glint, effectively conveying the sickly obsession of the protagonist. Like her father, Susan Kelly's Beatrice is wronged but not quite innocent, just as she should be. But most importantly, this production captures effectively the play's malevolent absurdist humor. Artaud's characters are felonious, but preposterous, and the McCreery O'Donnell direction deserves credit for avoiding oppressive modern-drama self-seriousness...
...Tevye is a well-developed character," Sabath explains. "He's a happy character with a good sense of humor but he also has a dark side which comes across as his emotional side in the play." Sabath adds both his sense of humor and his strong emotions allow him to adjust to the whole world falling apart around him. He is the one who is forced to deal with change when the other characters don't realize what is happening...
...seriously; this tendency has hastened poetry's tragic descent into obscurity, away from mainstream culture. Williamson praises Tillinghast's early poetry for its gentle irony, a quality which that poet has refined to great advantage in his more recent work. But he almost completely ignores the wonderful humor in most of Plath's poetry--a humor that saves her poetry from becoming an obsessive mythology of self-hatred. A sense of playfulness is the crucial element lacking in much personal poetry as well as other contemporary poetry. And we are surely lost if the poets have forgotten how to play
...tell people with problems--that is to say, all of us--that a change in attitude alone will end their woes. Moreover, a play which defines humanity in terms of intelligence is fundamentally skewed. In our culture, such a view implicitly raises the spectre of racism, which poisons any humor. These are serious problems with the play, with or without music, and I am surprised that actors or directors would find it attractive...