Word: interplays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tyrants. Anouilh's Becket attempts-without much psychological or historical depth-to show the love-hate relationship between the King and the servant-friend who turns against him in order to serve the church. Fry sought to concentrate more on Henry than on Becket and to illuminate the interplay of law-civil, canon, moral, divine. Says Fry: "Henry was essentially religious, also blasphemous, also superstitious, devoted to law yet also in himself anarchical." Having done careful research. Fry tried to tell the whole story from "the proud years when all events were Henry" to the King's final...
...writer, it's very much happier and luckier to be a man." She qualifies her attitude, however, with the thoughtful comment that the "nervous tension" thus created "may be good for my work." The reader, finding in her stories a vividly rendered perception of the complex interplay of human relationships, may well be inclined to agree...
...drama in First Family comes from the interplay between two families, the colored McKinleys and the white Charleses. Mr. McKinley is a sedate, scholarly classics teacher. He has a self-effacing sister and a gangling, precocious, twelve-year-old son named Scotty. The family dynamo is Rachel - a cool, lovely, relentless wife and mother. She intends to put her shoulder behind the integration issue, and her shoulder consists most ly of chip. As Rachel puts it: "I don't mind disturbing people a little. It's my idea to make them think about what they're like...
Between their act and the performers themselves there is an intriguing interplay, putting in question what is real and what is theatrical, in a way that suggests one of their favorite models, Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, himself something of a modern commedia dell' artist. Is Mike's nervous blinking, audiences usually want to know, part of the act or is it real? (It is real but less pronounced offstage.) Are Elaine's black dresses only a stage device? (It is not; Elaine never wears anything but black.) Some signs of tension underlying the humor suggest that Mike...
Election Year Caution. What the interplay of indicators-classical or makeshift-can never capture is the mood of the U.S. economy, which motivates most business decisions. Last week that mood was outspokenly cautious. The U.S. economy is temporarily without its most historic feature: momentum. This made the task of the indicator readers difficult and frustrating, but some put it all down to the fact that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most...