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...Salesman defined Broadway's highest aspirations in the 1940s, and On the Waterfront did the same for American movies of the 1950s. In that period he also conceived and co-founded the most influential teaching institution in U.S. theater history, the Actors Studio. In addition, he earned the strident scorn of the Stalinist left and the enduring suspicion of simple-hearted followers of the party line because he was one of the most + prominent and least apologetic figures to name former Communist colleagues before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) when it was investigating the party's activities...
...Gaulle, Adenauer. If the audience thinks such comparisons absurd, clearly the comedian does not; that is the purity of the comedy. But, whatever it may think, the audience does not laugh -- at this or at anything he says ("That's a new tape recorder") -- because under the still alive scorn, the still alive paranoia, lives the embodiment of resilience. Homo redivivus. Degraded, insistent, recovering...
...could you scorn a man who waits in the receiving line at game's end to shake each and every one of the opposing players' hands? Could you berate a man for praising opposing players, even after they have sent his team home again for a long spring's respite...
...Hampshire snow, amid scorn and scrutiny, Lee Hart put on a brave front. She wore a red coat and a bright smile as her husband launched himself back in the spotlight. She said what was expected: "I've always believed in Gary. I never stopped believing in him." But a day later, when a raunchy taunt or two soured the comeback, the portrait of the political wife was, in a candid moment, etched in pain. As she rode through a storm of gray sleet in the backseat of a borrowed van, Lee Hart's eyes welled with tears...
Robert Runcie's fate has been to preside over the church as it coped with a series of tempestuous issues. These have included the modernization of the Book of Common Prayer, women priests, remarriage after divorce, homosexuals in the clergy and the tendency of some bishops and theologians to scorn traditional beliefs. In each case, Runcie has tried to hold his church together as it lumbered toward liberalism...