Word: selfishnesses
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However, there are at least three outstanding jobs. Dan Deitch plays his sour, self-righteous Angelo with a sibilant "S" that makes every word he utters sound selfish and mean. Susan Channing has the part of Isabella to deal with -- one of the most ambiguous roles ever written. Yet she manages to be both touching and priggish, and she is always believable. And Paul Schmidt, though he may not show the power and the glory of the Duke, does do a creditable job with a part that goes on forever and ever...
...Abraham?and both at least forgot their differences long enough to bury their father. Their descendants in Israel and the Arab world today, even if they never embrace as brothers, need to come to terms with each other not only for the sake of world order but for selfish reasons. The Arabs need the help?and the lessons?that Israel is willing to give. The Israelis need peace. "We must try and try and try again to find a modus vivendi with our neighbors," says Levi Eshkol. "A small state has to work hard for friendship." Israel's hardest task...
Obtuse, self-pitying, domineering, obsessive, hypocritical, opinionated, exacting, intolerant, selfish, malevolent, deluded, manic-in fact, just about every pejorative word in the language could be applied to Lucy Nelson. She is a young woman who would try a reader's patience in a short story; in a lengthy novel she can scarcely be borne...
...democratic way of life. We can hope that this will be one of the most beneficial side effects of our military victory there, but the truth is that Southeast Asia is still strategically a vital region in our national defense structure and must be defended. To that selfish but important end, I earnestly suggest that the nation get on with the job of supporting Westmoreland, whose interpretation of his assignment richly deserves a return salute from the nation whose interests he so nobly defends...
...black, and occasionally blue, content, Entertaining Mr. Sloane is an absorbing comedy. Joe Orton spoon feeds his audience shock and grotesquerie, he doesn't throw it in their face. He uses an acute comic talent to show how people lose themselves in petty, selfish, and deviate concerns. The playwright has taken the time he is serving at a leading London prison to construct a careful play which grows progressively grotesque as the characters perceive and accommodate each other's desires...