Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allows the audience to wonder about the time factor in the deterioration of the girl's relationship, and about what the motivation is behind it all. His characters have only one dominant characteristic apiece, and are never quite full people. Yet the play achieves, in its twenty five-minute span, a distinctly Pinter effect. Larry Bryggman as Bates, the older of the two, creates an authentic character, a reserved man who just doesn't understand. William Young as Rumsey, the more flamboyant, has a tendency to swallow syllables in his brogue, but is convincing nonetheless. Roberta Collinge as Ellen handles...
...fine. Glad to see you," he said. . . . The moment they met, everyone could tell that this was the real thing. Actress Joan Crawford and Lassie found each other as winners of Benrus Citation Awards "for outstanding achievements based on time"-the lady as the star with the longest time span in films (45 years), the dog as star of the longest running drama in television (17 years). Gushed Miss Crawford, when she recovered her breath: "I waited 17 years to meet Lassie, and the way he kissed me -he's a real male. Of all my screen kisses, that...
...South-quietly and finally dismantled." He worried about the excessive moralism of the nation and the rhetoric of crisis it has developed. "As a result," he said, "we have acquired bad habits of speech and worse patterns of behavior, lurching from crisis to crisis with the attention span of a five-year-old. For all our achievements elsewhere, and for all the durability of the American democracy, we have somehow never learned to be sufficiently thoughtful about the tasks of running a complex society...
...children are incredibly fine. It's natural for children to be raised in extended families, where there are many adults." Yet in spite of the talk of extended families, the extension in the new communes does not reach to a third generation. Indeed, the "families" have a narrow age span, and it is possible that the children have never seen an adult over...
...spectacular spectrum of meaningful motivation. Where else can you sing along with Pete Seeger, find a goodly measure of mirth with the Muppets, and learn in spite of oneself? Thus the so-called low achievers are mentally massaged by the TV medium-so much so that an impossible attention span of an hour is commandeered. Learning can and should take place beyond the big red schoolhouse. With the advent of today's technological instruction techniques, perhaps a portion of learning can take place in the home again. For learning is not limited to the schools...