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...point out that even a large audience can participate at a lecture. They advise that what may be impolite on a small scale may be considered bold and even revolutionary when done with grandeur by a group en masse. Thus while it is frowned on to yawn, fidget and mutter when listening to a lecturer who you find less than stimulating, if you can get enough people to join, you have a demonstration. Demonstrations are not appropriate with all speakers, but Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank, and Secretary of Defense under Johnson, will speak at the Boston...
Despite these insights, reading A Welfare Mother is an excruciatingly frustrating experience. The typical reader might mutter back at the author, "But what did she say?" The text is an ambling description that lacks any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
...days of the year T.V. people get most of their stories through newspapers. For four days newspapermen can surrender their primacy. It's really their event. And they are well-prepared. Five minutes with NBC's John Hart convinced me of that. I once saw Hart mutter to someone on the floor that he wished he knew more about the party's defense plank. But two minutes later he was stumping Admiral Zumwalt, the party spokesman on defense, with some tough questions about the party's stand...
...entire basis of dramatic update is problematic. Modernization presupposes limitations of audience imagination, and that undermines the very concept of drama. Drama entails entering a world not our own, and that involvement is not necessarily made smoother when the characters wear Bloomingdales' outfits and mutter in student slang. "Relevance" has little to do with decade or decor. Adaptation often weakens the playwright's intentions; Kolzak's Ghosts in surface mirrors Ibsen but in substance is worlds apart...
This adds irony to Chance's desperate mutter: "Something's gotta mean something. thing...