Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worry about losing their jobs for backing the wrong man. To be sure, some South Vietnamese were disturbed by the prospect of continued rule by the military men who have run the country for the past two years. But most U.S. officials are convinced that at the present stage of South Viet Nam's political development, and with a war under way, a freely elected Thieu-Ky team is the surest guarantee of continued stability...
...socially sound activity." More simply, Author Robert Heilbroner observes: "Public relations is Dale Carnegie writ large." The good p.r. man is, above all, a specialist in communications. He tries to write or edit messages so that they will carry a certain meaning; he tries to report and sometimes stage-manage situations so that the public will see his client in a certain light. He must be able to handle words and-equally-he must know when to keep silent. Naturally, his art is fallible, and it can be used for improper ends. But it is needed in a society where...
...world and play: arrange a conference here, a clambake there, strike now a religious chord, then a sexy blue note. This p.r. playfulness can offend, annoy and infuriate. Despite the excellence at the top of the profession, far too many p.r. men still think their chief function is to stage lunches, cocktail parties, junkets, cruises, screenings, no-news press conferences, and other nonevents. Releases are fired off without regard for destination or deadline. Throughout the entire 16 weeks that the New York Herald Tribune was struck in 1963, releases continued pouring into its offices-some of them by special messenger...
...Museum. Liebermann, 56, a charming, energetic ex-composer, firmly controls quality by adjusting the tiniest strokes of stage business and watching nearly every performance. In the belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...
...ought to be obvious that a man playing a part cannot see his own performance as an audience does. Not only this, but he cannot adequately judge the performances of the other players with whom he is acting and (one hopes?) interacting on stage. A production needs to be seen as a whole; and this demands perspective and objectivity. It was for this reason that the job of directed evolved in the first place--and, analogously, that the orchestral conductor superseded the head-bobbing harpsichordist or violin list. Is the indulging of theatrical egotism and arrogance worth a return...