Word: simplemindedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No Old Testament story seems retold as often as the episode of Jonah swallowed whole (there are strong suggestions of it in works as disparate as Pinocchio and Jaws). But somehow Warwick Hutton has found a way of giving the tale a fresh approach in Jonah and the Great Fish...
In his research with pigeons, Herrnstein ponders such questions as: What does a simpleminded animal, like a pigeon possess to distinguish between a tree and a person that a complicated machine, like a computer, does not? What secret of classification is mother nature hiding and, if found, could we apply...
Those costs will certainly be high, far higher than the tragic loss of life alone. By invading Grenada, the U.S. risks tarnishing the high moral standard, based on respect for national sovereignty and self-determination, that distinguishes its conduct in the world from that of its Soviet adversary. Indeed, cries...
Today Blitzstein's work can be seen as period agitprop, analogous to Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. It is colored with the lyric causticity of the Brecht-Weill collaborations. Yet it is always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of...
At times, the play between happiness and unhappiness becomes exquisitely subtle. As the steelworker leaves the stage, lights pick up two corporate executives loudly casting aspersions on their parking attendant (Ronald Brown); they throw a dime tip, expecting him to scrabble. But instead Brown swings into an ebullient softshoe number...