Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself to the next stop on his lecture circuit (aviation is one of his hobbies), Toffler, on the pretense of responding to a question, rose and delivered a deadly serious warning to the 100 or so people who had come to the Science Center to hear him speak. With perfect elocution and rising intensity, Toffler beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working...
Well, that is an interesting notion. Nihilism of that sort creates the perfect Catch-22 situation. Exactly how does one go about proving--proofs being rooted in the acceptance of causality--that causality does not exist? Needless to say, Toffler did not pursue that interesting philosophical question too far. After all, he had only an hour to speak. It is difficult to dismantle the foundations of knowledge and still have time to warn your audience of the third great revolution that is sweeping the world...
...crew of a Neapolitan ship wrecked on a seemingly deserted island, and the deposed duke who brought them there by sorcery. Reality is suffused with magic, and by the end of the play almost all of the characters have trouble distinguishing reality from illusion. This splendid confusion provides a perfect setting for avant-garde theater, in countless scenes where bizarre happenings become the norm. Thus the multiplication of leads is justifiable, even if it does not really work. The triumvirate of directors makes an honest stab at bringing elements of dance and mime into the production. but their efforts tend...
...because they float across stage on a gondola bearing a resemblance of sorts to Washington Crossing the Delaware. But nothing is flat about David S. Brown's and Diane Nabatoff's performances. Nabatoff manages to look both pinched and bombastic simultaneously. Uppercrustedly on the bourgeois make, Brown has the perfect Hogarthian face for the role: his oblivious facial reactions to his own spectacular antics make him all the funnier. With Brown as the Duke of Plaza-Toro, it is the couple that caws together that brings life to the stage together...
Naturally pleased with his perfect record, Hanower still felt he fenced a "little sloppily" in his first two bouts. In his third, however, he fenced extremely efficiently, polishing off his foe in 19 seconds, three seconds shy of the unofficial record for the shortest Crimson victory ever...