Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walks in with a wisecrack. Neither the intellectual pomp inherent in the lecture format, nor the stolid, somber Eliot House library can dampen his compulsive sense of humor. "The plays are the essence of me," he says. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say he is the essence of his plays; his wit flows so effortlessly, so smoothly that it seems innate. Neil Simon, apparently can't help being funny...
...about his talent. Reinforcing this sense of insecurity is his love-hate affair with the drama critics. Some invariably like his work; others, he declares, walk into the theater hating the play. Claiming he lacks confidence, he willingly accepts the verdicts of those he respects. "I like critics who say to me, 'This is valid, I like it, but you need more work,'" he remarks. However, Simon often finds the opinions of reviewers contradictory or otherwise unhelpful; and then he stops listening to them. "Critics want everything to be either comedy or drama. I say that when life decides...
When you look like Robert DeNiro, you don't have to say much...
...there's a third path and that's what I call the QWL approach. Say you were management and I were the union, and I had a demand to improve the quality of work life. The deadline for a contract is midnight, otherwise there'll be a strike. At two minutes to 12 you say, 'I give up, I'll give you the demand--tell me what you want me to do.' I couldn't tell you, because a QWL program isn't conducive to that kind of collective bargaining process. It has to be built from the ground...
...might say, there are three basic paths, as I see it, which collective bargaining is following. The normal hard-boiled adversarial collective bargaining which takes place over wages, benefits, working conditions, etc., is going to continue. We'll be in negotiation with GM in July, and we're going to fight like tigers for a good contract. And we may have a strike. Who knows? Simultaneously, there are certain programs that we have to fight very hard to get management to agree to. But once they have agreed, we establish joint, co-operative means of implementing them, like health...