Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...follows, does it not, that we must all want the same things? According to Harvard Cardiologist Bernard Lown, president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, that's not just Shakespeare, it's a scientific fact: "Our aim is to promote the simple medical insight," he writes, "that Russian and American hearts are indistinguishable, that both ache for peace and survival...
That pragmatic attitude is echoed in the quality of many Japanese performances, which tend to stress technique over insight. This is largely due to the extraordinary respect, bordering on veneration, that the Japanese have for teachers, or sensei; too often students seek to imitate a teacher's style in preference to developing an individual interpretation. The innate Japanese reluctance to assert oneself in public is partly to blame, as is the strong desire to honor the sensei by reproducing their imparted wisdom. But in Western music, which prizes individuality, such cultural conditioning is a hindrance. Notes Kimura: "The principal...
...right time, and by the right person, this meat-and-potatoes statement has since served as my best companion during times when I've been obsessed with the opinions of others or afraid to take a chance at something for fear of failure. This most useful insight of my life, which was also the most obvious, came from a 20-year-old girl who rarely read, whose chain-smoking and social habits irritated me to exasperation, and whose malapropisms made Norm Crosby sound like Voltaire. And it came to me at a time when I was as far from...
...family. The incestuous love Orin (Alek Keshishian) feels for his mother and the similar feelings Vinnie (Amy Brenneman) has for her father incite the pair to murder. Passion, jealousy, revenge and guilt ooze from the play like poisons. In O'Neill's hands, the characters' idiosyncracies give us modern insight into the psychological motivations for the original Greek figures...
Perhaps the only force that can embrace these opposites is the meliorism of humor, which happily abounds in this novel. The author's favorite trick is the fast shuffle, the scrambling of conventional wisdom to produce a comic insight. Describing an unconsummated love affair, Tony says that "the spirit is willing but the flesh is strong." And this wayward narrator even pretends that being funny is not what he has on his mind at all. Objecting to the word, he plans "never to chuckle, neither do I wish to be the cause of others' doing so." On this...