Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bentley claims that his show is "theater of fact." True, he has invented not a spoken line of it, but facts are mute. They are animated by climates of opinion, and that social context is missing. Bentley simply relies on popular present attitudes to validate lofty moral judgments on the past. At the time the hearings were held, wartime amity with the Soviet Union had been crushed by the descent of the Iron Curtain, and there was a not unnatural suspicion, supported by proof which exists to this very moment, that the Russians were out to Communize the world...
...Scarf to believe that the women's liberation movement has created entirely new problems for women to deal with. When observing women at a psychiatric hospital this summer, Scarf found many of them to be frustrated by the conflict between traditional societal positioning which requires "nice, soft-spoken women" and the demands of new consciousness. One encounter this summer that Scarf said jolted her was with a bright woman, who from appearances, should have been very contented. The woman confided to Scarf that "If I kill myself, I won't have to find a career...
Thomsen said he has yet to talk to any student members of CHUL who favor the 1-1-2. In addition, he said, masters who haven't spoken about the study are concerned about its effects on the Houses...
...woman's femininity is undermined at the moment the two individuals are named. Sartre calls this "positive misinformation." Similarly, words can go to the extreme of "non-knowledge" instead of meaning-as-knowledge. This kind of distortion is possible in any language simply because the printed or spoken word is a physical reality. The words "frog" and "ox," for example, possess a sound and image totally unrelated to the animals they conjure up. Sartre contends that a phrase like "The frog that wants to become as big as an ox" contains, in an inextricable blend between materiality and meaning, much...
...conceal much of the inner man from public view. Says a longtime associate: "Bentsen is one of the hardest people in public life to get to know." Adds Calvin Guest, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party: "The problem is to communicate his great leadership ability. Groups he has spoken to often go away without understanding what he really said...