Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be profoundly conscious of the world in which the Lomans live and move, it is as human beings that they interest and concern us. Director Langton seems to have gotten to the root of the personal relationships of the play. One can almost see it schematized in his mind: Linda--Mrs. Loman--at the center as the fulcrum and focus of the action, and perhaps in the larger sense the symbol of Woman as the base of stability in the family, her husband Willy at one end of the lever, and Biff, her oldest son, at the other...
...which recently finished a run of almost 400 performances on Broadway. Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of its dialogue. Vidal avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and bespeak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...
...through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers crammed full of significant data. "When you do your research yourself," says he, "you combine it all in your own mind and come to conclusions that a staff of twelve people could not possibly reach...
...Poet George Faludi confessed to the Russians that he had been recruited as an American spy by General Edgar Allan Poe, Colonel Walt Whitman and Captain Henry Thoreau. Thrown into solitary, he composed a whole sequence of poems in his mind. Later he smuggled these poems out of prison by having released prisoners memorize twelve lines at a time and then recite them on a visit to his wife...