Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen through the shit she has been spoon-fed all her life. She has seen through the hatred of men and sex her mother has tried to instill in her since childhood, through the robbery and racism of which her family's wealth is a product, and the maxim that you don't rock the boat, even if the boat is sinking. She has seen through the parents who want to commit her to an asylum for her behavior and her ideas, and has tried desperately to escape. First, a weak attempt at suicide, and then a violently determined...
...Maxim from Kant. Peter represents Mary McCarthy's first attempt to write from a male point of view and there are moments, especially those involving sex, when she is not wholly successful. When she is stuck, she tends to rely on a rationalization. For instance, it is one thing to say that Peter is obsessed with fair play, but is it really likely that he would have given up masturbation after his mother left his stepfather, "because she was not even going to parties...
...Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there is no such thing as a character ungoverned by a social context...
...conversion was like Alypus', as described by Augustine in his Confessions: "Quid plura? Spectavit, clamavit, exarsit, abstulit, inde secum insaniam qua stimularetur redire; non tantum cum illis a quibus prius abstractus est, sed etiam prae etiam prae illis, et alios trahens." New, as if to prove the medieval maxim that one must believe in order to understand, I have come to see what all the excitement is about...
...Jean-Paul Roussillon has made farce into a quicklime laughter that burns to those bones. It is the paradox of modern directing to play a villain for his sympathetic qualities (as Stanislavsky counseled his actors); to play tragedy with a light touch; above all to play comedy straight. The maxim has worked trenchant revelation with English Restoration comedy; with Molière, from whom the Restoration playwrights learned, it rips the commedia dell'arte mask off the bleeding man beneath...