Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something I've never forgotten. The histrionic aspect of teaching is one of the things that interest me about the profession. I haven't decided against the TV business on principle. I have rejected a number of specific things simply because they didn't fit a particular image of myself which is very secure in me. I believe in TV as a medium of communication. I think it is potentially the greatest...
...felt that our particular type of crusade could at best only make a dent in New York City," writes Billy. "Time after time, as we stood in the midst of this throbbing metropolis, we felt our inadequacy to accept this challenge . . . Protestantism in New York is in an extreme minority.* Ministers have been discouraged and frustrated ... In talking with many of them we found almost a sense of desperation. Ministers who could not agree with us theologically . . . are willing to cooperate simply because there seems to be nothing else in sight for them to reach the conscience of this city...
...additional sign of the growing Broadway mentality among the local drama groups can be found in the type of play which they choose as their vehicles. The current Dudley House production of Streetcar presents a particularly unfortunate example, but scarcely an isolated one. The last couple of years have witnessed the college staging of other plays by Williams, as well as works of Miller, Fry, and Chekhov, all of whom then had plays running in New York. While these men are among the best of modern playwrights, their works do receive quite frequent productions by the commercial theater. Obviously college...
...might spend one's life pleasantly and very profitably with the secondary writers of the English nineteenth century, the writers whom no one would think to call 'great,' the odd quirky spirits from George Burrow to Mark Rutherford, the travelers, the autobiographers, the essayists, the men who had a particular, perhaps eccentric, thing to say, and said it fully and well, with delight in what they were doing and no worry about greatness. And England is still able to produce and respond to these secondary figures. With us, however, the writer must be great or he is nothing; or believed...
...poem, like the sphinx, speaks only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept, but he is within the predetermined framework, which makes the possibility of an important experience slight...