Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's new play about a weak ne'er-do-well slaps a lethargic Broadway season into awareness, is written with power and insight...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. This first-rate memoir of an ex-Communist, far from the customary exercise in self-justification, tells of the author's misadventures in the century's wars and revolutions, offers insight into the politics and morals...
...University of Toronto, in a splendid flight of pedagogical rhetoric, added: "The dialogue [between man and machine] will replace the guided tours of data provided by the book. For in the dialogue, there is no maintaining a point of view but only the common participation in creating perpetually new insight and understanding in a total field of unified awareness...
...Ogden Nash ("For what is nice in Kalamazoo's its monicker. As in Atlantic City Miss America"), but just as often he writes a line that is patently new and pleasant. When all the girls in Kansas take off their clothes (there may be a metaphysical insight here, after all) Koch observes that their bodies are "almanacs to teach . . . the poet how to shape his lines. The woodsman what is lacking in the pines." All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches a perfect game, King Amaranth decides that England's girls should...
Toys in the Attic (by Lillian Hellman) slaps a slumped, lethargic theatrical season into awareness. The reason is not just that Toys has a sense of tautness, insight and power; it also has a pervasive sense of playwriting. It constitutes a dramatic journey, with a destination, rather than a mere series of vivid theatrical way stations. And it so clearly reaches its destination that its finest moments are its concluding ones. This alone is outstanding in a Broadway theater world that, even when it knows where it is going, too often about-faces when it gets there...