Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baltimore's Catholic Review. Added Theologian Connell: "There is nothing in the Catholic religion that should prevent a Catholic from being a good President. But it might be detrimental to the church or to Catholics to have a Catholic President. Almost any national misfortune or calamity that would occur would be ascribed to his religion by many...
...trouble is not so much that playwrights are attracted to violent or ugly themes. These almost inevitably occur in great drama. The trouble is in the spirit in which these themes are treated. In any of its high periods, the drama implied a human condition capable of dignity and hence of tragedy. The non-hero of too many modern plays starts out in the gutter and ends up there; he is not tragic because he never rises and hence cannot fall...
...play from a glassed-in booth, the cameras and microphones hover over the table, picking up hands and the players' chitchat. Goren never erases his own predictions from the sound track when he is wrong, or the cardsmen's bad plays when they occur...
Sadistic & Sick. Less clear and distinctly alien is the rationale for Nunne's sadistic murders, all of which occur discreetly offstage. Novelist Wilson's argument is that crime is a thirst for freedom, a chance to wrest a heroic identity from a world of regimented boredom and blurring mediocrity. In a sick society, the superman becomes a monster. A trip to the morgue finally opens Gerard's eyes to the monstrosity of Nunne, but not before the reader has suffered much quasi-Nietzschean chatter to the effect that "if a man could kill all his illusions...
...impact was thunderous, but no more so than thousands of other collisions that occur on the nation's gridirons every fall weekend. But astonishingly enough, the players recorded a reading of 50 g.-well over twice the amount most people think a human can tolerate...