Word: interlocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicates a considerable dependence on the complicity of the audience, which is expected to accept the performance at its face rather than at its true value. In considerate society, the audience seldom lets the performer down-in part, as Goffman repeatedly notes, because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...
...Living Theatre appears to aim at nothing more nor less than what it achieves. If it doesn't interlock one's nervous system with its own and, so doing, deny such standard points of external reference as time and place, this is because the actors care more about their work than about their audience. They seem to be saying, in properly oblique fashion, that an audience can take care of itself...
...precedent in the annals of performed Shakespeare. But Papp has clearly made a serious attempt to demonstrate the viability of Shakespeare's insights into men's weaknesses in terms of modern theater. His Hamlet is a gathering of fantasies, envisaged by the leading players. The fantasies seldom interlock; emotions are inner, private and unshared, until they clash in a series of brutal, shattering collisions. Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity...
...Avoiding Interlock. The main reason for Norton Simon's other move-his own disestablishment from Wheeling
Most educators are unworried by the possibility that U.S. institutes of higher learning might eventually interlock into one big nationwide university, conclude that the consortium is the key to academic survival for small liberal-arts colleges. "There is no question that we are in for a permanent era of big higher education," said Louis Benezet, president of the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. "The nice little quiet campus that talks about the eternal verities is going to be passed over...