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Others have tagged him as "the spokesman for elitism in American theater." Brustein doesn't like his "elitist" label, and calls it "a political football and a red herring." The word "elite," he says, is misunderstood in America. People think that "no one is better than anyone else. Well, that's the wrong road to take--a person can have a special talent or gift, and we have to identify that gift and encourage it. I'm interested in quality, excellence, standards." He says he has preserved his ideal over the last 13 years, but has learned how to soften...
...beautiful body was mopping up all the business in the place, and she, a professional professional, insisted that sex is never perverse, just misunderstood...
...Biting the Backlash." In it, Runner-Writer Colman McCarthy mourns that his fellow treaders "are being knocked, mocked and socked." He prescribes a strategy for runners in the face of backlash. They should enjoy the derisive jokes, he says, and then more or less retreat metaphysically into their own misunderstood superiority. Toward that end he commends to them a line from T.S. Eliot: "In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away." Evidently True Runners are feeling the needle - but without getting the point. It is, simply enough, that granted their direction...
...Neill apparently misunderstood Moore's words as meaning that Griffin was not going to be fired. "He said it can't happen," O'Neill later told a friend. "He didn't tell me the truth." When Griffin was indeed fired the next day, O'Neill was deeply outraged. He declared publicly that both he and his friend had been "treated shabbily." As for Moore, O'Neill said, he would no longer be welcome in the Speaker's office-an extraordinary blow to the relations between two branches of Government...
University officials now say the union misunderstood the purpose of worker reclassification. "We were trying to provide work for carpenters when there was no work for them to do. It was an effort to avoid laying them off, but they felt we were trying to put people on assignments where they wouldn't use their trade skills developed over a number of years," Joyce said, citing this as an example of the "trouble in communicating" that led to the strike...