Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bribery is a way of life in the American business community, Nader said. "You may be about to go to work for criminals. You say they're not criminals all the time, probably. Well, neither are burglars," Nader said...
...creating a series of stage pictures that reinforce their interpretations. His monumental style, however, is least effective at the very beginning, where a touch more continuity and less mannerism might help the actors introduce themselves and the play's refrains. As it is, the opening portrays the prosaic daily life of the Prozorov household and friends with jerkiness. Perhaps Chekhov intended a sense of alienation from the start, but that shouldn't make the actors themselves look uncomfortable on stage, as they do for the first 15 minutes...
...many lives are explored with clarity and precision. Her stories are precise and read like poetry; not a moment, not a character, not an action is out of place. She does not need to add fictional action of events, she merely orchestrates the feelings and experiences of everyday life which we usually see and then forget...
...Silences the struggle moves into the society and the act of creation becomes a right. After giving up so much of her life for the things she had to do, she now declares, "No one's development at the cost of others! Technology is advanced enough so that we can do this." The other important task of the time is to change the old, pointless images which hamper expectations and hopes. When we remove the stigmas which bar the realization of dreams, then the inner soul will flourish in a body of meaningful literature, regardless of sex, color, or creed...
...Tillie's life, the circumstances which silenced her were concrete demands on her time: motherhood and work. However, she also recognizes that social norms and institutions often silence people indirectly by molding or corrupting the individual's creative will. Often the ideals and dreams which we have as children never leave that childrens' world. Somewhere along the path to maturity they are lost, forgotten, or die from lack of attention...