Word: interplays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic. Several of Houdini's feats, including his water-can escape, were authentically and grippingly duplicated by Mark Mazzarella, a 19-year-old college sophomore. But the cost of going for such theatrical pizazz was a loss of psychological depth. Houdini offered almost no plot, almost no human interplay. Throughout the evening, a large portrait of the magician stared out at the performers from the ear of the stage, as if challenging them to account for his mysterious driven nature. The tricks, the career, the public appropriation of him as a hero were all here. But the man himself...
Congress, a beat he was given in late 1954, was different. Baker loved its ripe pomposities, its jostling overweeners, the interplay and foolishness of it all. Pat Furgurson of the Sun recalls joking with Baker in the Senate gallery: "Baker would look down and say, 'Look, there's Ken Keating, wearing Charles Bickford's old hair.'" Charles McDowell of the Richmond Times-Dispatch recalls Baker's work: "He'd start out writing about some Senator, and pretty soon it would turn into a piece of architecture. He'd set scenes and roll around in his story like an essayist...
...ability both as a teacher and (sorry, Prof. Marius) a human being. Writing--any writing, but particularly fiction writing--is a very personal thing and often is difficult to discuss with others. However, under Ms. Thomson's direction, our group of 15 men and women has achieved the interplay of feelings and ideas that is so essential to a "learning experience." We've also produced some damn good writing and little of it, I venture to say, would have come without Diana's frequent and freely given help...
What further astonishes me is the current director's apparent aversion to "counseling" as a part of excellent small-group teaching. What is teaching, at its very best, after all, than the interplay of people--the older ones who have the knowledge, the compassion, and the standards, and the younger ones who need all three? The current Expos director seems to disdain, even to fear, caring. Yet it is probably, in fact, for most of those freshmen who pass through his computer, the most valuable gift their teachers can give them...
...pivotal issue in the Pope's speech was one of tactics. John Paul believes more rights can be gained for the oppressed through moral education than by agitation and revolution. Said he: "Whatever the miseries or sufferings that afflict man, it is not through violence, the interplay of power, and political systems, but through the truth concerning man, that he journeys toward a better future...