Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tony and I feel we should try to work from within the ACSR," Low said yesterday. "If the reforms were defeated that would prove that working from within is useless and we would have the public relations advantage of proving the non-representativeness of ACSR," he added...
Wiprud walks onto the set again in the second play of the evening, The Private Ear, and his tremendous stage presence and energy make the play a success. Written by Peter Shaffer (of Equus fame) to be performed in tandem with The Public Eve--the last play of the trio--Ear shows a man's failure to establish a relationship with a woman he invites to his apartment for dinner...
...Simone Hie, a beautiful young woman and a drug addict. Within a year the couple were estranged, and Camus began his lifelong exploration of "the tender and reserved friendship of women." He became an actor-director in a workers' theater, a profession that taught him the value of public postures, and he joined the Communist Party, with which he would have his bitterest wrangles...
More and more he withdrew from public life, seeking the obscurity of the old days. He suffered from a crippling writer's block, and complained of sterility and decay. Even the Nobel, awarded in 1957, was perceived as both an honor and an invasion of privacy. "I'm castrated!" he complained to a friend. The cry, like many of his statements, was pure theater. Yet as Lottman shows, Camus produced no more major work. He retreated to the sanctity of his home, to Francine and their twins, and was at work on a new novel, The First...
...examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that while 49% of American men rank sexual satisfaction as "very important" to happiness, 84% give that same...