Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These playwrights tend to examine the metaphysical at the expense of the physical, to probe inner psychic space and ignore outer social space. There is little happiness, less love and no hint of the pleasures of existence in these plays. But have all the juices and joys of life dried up? Scarcely. Since these authors' characters are purposely distorted and dematerialized, one cannot identify with them any more than a man can identify with his own X rays. Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and he made his stage all the world. With skeletal casts...
...dream of a musical." For six weeks, the show lived a word-of-mouth existence, until at last it caught on. Now, five months later, it has copped virtually every award the theater has to offer: five Tonys, the New York Drama Critics Circle prize and the Outer Circle Award...
...evolutionary changes, Heezen believes, may well have been caused by the temporary disappearance of the earth's magnetic field at the mid-point of each reversal cycle. In the absence of the field-which normally deflects many of the high-energy particles from outer space-cosmic-ray particles rained down unhindered. Enough of them penetrated the atmosphere to alter and damage the cells of existing organisms, destroying some species and causing mutations in others...
POLITICS: THE OUTER FRINGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley looks at the lunatics...
...Valentin Silvestrov, 27, a onetime engineer, is a graduate of the Kiev Conservatory. Though he came late to music, he is one of the most original of the new Soviet composers, has extensively explored the outer reaches of avant-garde music. His Spectrums was the first example of the chance style performed in Russia...