Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most parents regard TV's Sesame Street as a benevolent baby sitter, but Viewer Edward Hoagland, 43, has noticed something more. Animals, he suggests, are now an endangered species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
This Henry is a platoon sergeant rather than lord of the realm. It is not only his gawky stance that denies the cleverness and kingliness of Henry V's character, but also his brusquely rushed vocal delivery that seems to mimic Richard Burton's voice without offering any of its sumptuously resonant timbre...
FROM AN EXECUTIVE box in the stadium, George Steinbrenner's despotic eyes roamed his realm as the president of the Yankees watched the heroes on the field. Steinbrenner had been for-bidden by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to run his own club for two years after a conviction for giving illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon. During spring training, Steinbrenner had for-bidden his players to grow their hair too long or bushy so that they could learn to appreciate the tradition of playing in pinstripes--some wise guy commented that he'd like to see Steinbrenner in horizontal pinstripes. Steinbrenner...
...ever-narrowing circles of influence between the reformers and the Tammany machine. Belle Moscowitz, charming New York's governor Al Smith onto a course of social betterment, replaced the self-educated worker as the Jewish version of political success. But this adaptation was not confined to the political realm. Everywhere the Jews favored postponing fulfillment. After all, wasn't it right for a truly loving parent to deny his own pleasures for the sake of his children...
...plays that belong in the durable realm of dramatic art seem to predate their creation. They exercise a strange primordial authority and inevitability. Virginia Woolf is just that sort of invincible work...