Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who go to Charlie Brown expecting profound theater will leave disappointed. But the play, more than anything else, provides an alternative. Admittedly, it's easy to pull off Charlie Brown. But the sublime needs the ridiculous to be sublime, and Charlie Brown acts as a foil for all the campus theater that takes itself too seriously...
...keep someone else from toppling--if no one can invade like a relative, no one can be there as fast with the ambulance. The spirit of Gemini is very precious, and its hero is the Drama: it makes these trivial people very grand, renders the corniest platitudes heroic and profound, and gives us insight into those big and little dramas we enact every day, performing to keep the cold...
Educational fun, though. Royal Charles has no pretensions to profound historical interpretation, but, with clear exposition of many tangled situations and with careful research, Fraser reliably guides the reader through 17th-century politics. Biography can be the best history for the layman--with a clear chronology and a well-defined cast of characters, events become easier to follow...
...launches into a rendition of Richard III's soliloquy, accompanying himself on a pair of "tuned chickens." But the fact is that what Peter Sellers told Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show may be as frank a public statement as he can make about himself. It reveals his profound fear that the real Peter Sellers, at 54, is virtually a cipher, that he has no personality and that he will either not be able to find or will at the last minute lose whatever fictive creation he has chosen to wrap around himself...
...revitalization leader brings both political and religious sustenance to those in need; he converts his own profound religious experience to political purposes. In his mission of bringing spiritual rebirth, such a leader necessarily deals in symbols; he often derives his own power from the ability to communicate with supernatural agents. He talks directly with God often through prayer. An 'outsider,' he stands apart from the existing authority structure, and against the Establishment, deriving his powers from his experience with the supernatural...