Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, a novel of distinction gets lost in the munching, crunching echoes of promotion and ballyhoo. It would be a shame if such were to be the case with this book, which looks like the sleeper of the season...
...next year's ticket, but right now the group isn't connected with Al Lowenstein's Dump-Johnson movement. "I think there's going to be some kind of merger," Casady said; "Lowenstein is trying to form a coalition of peace groups, and it would be a real shame if the whole movement doesn't get together under one name...
More of the Shame. The voice belonged not to a hypnotist but to Lee Strasberg, 65, director of the Actors Studio, teaching method acting for the first time in Europe. "You seemed even to have run through a wall," he scolded after the actress' first effort to follow his commands. "When you smoked a cigarette, you held your fingers together as though you were sucking them. The cigarette had no taste, no reality. Now let's try again...
...embarrassed moments, the early confidence had gone. The actress responded like a Miss Universe candidate who had just popped a shoulder strap. Nevertheless, she returned the next day for more of the shame. Though Strasberg's famous pop-psych approach to acting has lately been criticized as much as it has been acclaimed in the U.S., the French have welcomed him as though he were Stanislavsky reincarnate. "The event of the theatrical season," trumpeted Le Monde, and 443 theater folk from 26 countries plunked down $60 each to get the Strasberg pitch. Among the students who enrolled...
...unrelieved shrillness of your editorial of October 2. "The Shame of Faculty Silence," has overcome a long-standing rule of mine against indulging in letters to editors. What the Crimson does to its role as a reporter and ideally as a shaper of opinion at Harvard is obviously none of my business--though I am entitled to my own views about the effect on thoughtful readers of this sort of rhetorical overkill. What does concern me is the possible distortion of motives and effects implicit in your discussion of last week's visit to Washington by fifteen members of this...