Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graphic re-creation of a junkie's pad; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; The Zoo Story, Albee's famed mano a mano between Natural and Ivy League Man, running on a double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen series; In the Jungle of Cities, a mystifying but thoroughly stimulating early play by Bertolt Brecht; The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's superb argument that the world is a mammoth cat house...
...often passes hour after hour with friends while saying almost nothing. His main worry is that the New Wave may be hurt by its worst potential enemy: pretension. "The public," he says, "is happily insensitive to the verbiage of the esthetes. The essential thing is for us to remain lucid, and not take ourselves for the navel of the universe...
...crises. If this one is important, it is precisely because the very existence of a posterity is in doubt. Unfortunately, political critics seem to be hypnotized by this threat, so terrified by the razor-edge context of their debates that a quality of frenzy dominates even the most lucid of them...
Church Music (1952), best displays what Davison called his "gift of invective," for its lucid, often deliciously polemical style projects well-defined standards for sacred music that are based on a very clear idea of the role of music in worship. Davison minces no words in describing the devotional habits and musical ideas of the average layman and concludes that "our churches are literally asylums for the harboring of the great army of the apostles of musical mediocrity...
Message of Hope. Kennedy's inauguration speech went beyond mere rhetoric derived from the U.S. past; it had profound meaning for the U.S. future. In lean, lucid phrases the nation's new President pledged the U.S. to remain faithful to its friends, firm against its enemies but always willing to bring an end to the cold war impasse...