Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...
...work's major problems is that the audience is drawn into the play less by empathy than by sheer fascination with Ibsen's unerring craft. Similar problems exist with the dominant structure of dualities and negations. What is said is often far different from what is meant. Hedda maintains inner autonomy by contemptuous manipulation of others, and the culminating suicide grotesquely affirms freedom, leaving the onlooker shaken but less than profoundly moved...
...people who suffer most from the crunch resulting from increased health costs and increased waste are precisely those who are most in need. Because of the various disincentives inherent in the system, there is an uneven geographic distribution of health care benefits: while wealthy areas are favored, rural and inner city areas are neglected. Public funds, including tax subsidies, do more for the well-to-do than for the poor. Since, in our present system, health benefits are linked to employment, the unemployed are often left unprotected. For those who are employed, programs like Medicare pay more on behalf...
...drawn into the White House Watergate efforts back in April, 1973 when Nixon called upon him to draft the speech announcing the resignations of his two chief White House aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. But in the last week of July, 1974, Ray Price unobtrusively entered into the inner circle of actors involved in the Watergate drama. As Nixon's collaborator on the resignation speech and one of the aides who advised the president during the ultimate unravelling of Watergate, Price received a close-up look at the final days of President Nixon...
...discussing the possibility of changing all the locks in Leverett Towers to make them more secure." Kenneth Andrews, master of Leverett House, said yesterday, adding, "We would also like to put locks on the inner door and the elevators...