Word: stiltedness
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Even the counterculture of the '60s--which was genuinely in opposition to advanced, bureaucratized capitalism and the stilted, unspontaneous him in beings it created--could not transcend this vision of the past. The hip Left's retreat into rural communalism and undisciplined, leaderless opposition was essentially in keeping with America...
Mainly, Albee has indulged his playwriting defects. Having a very weak gift for plot construction, he took to adapting novels ranging from Carson McCullers' to James Purdy's. One such "adaption," Everything in the Garden (TIME, Dec. 8, 1967), was rather more effective in its original form as...
Both books have flaws. For a writer of well-told short stories and novels, Brodeur is agonizingly plodding, repetitive and needlessly complex in his report. He quotes sources directly and at great length, in precise but stilted language that sounds too edited to be accurately conversational. Scott tells a more...
Upstairs is another story. The remarkable preponderance of tow-heads, the innocuous nature of the bathroom graffito, the stilted conversation of the patrons, and the proliferation of tuxedoes indicate to the wayward observer that he has at last stumbled upon a watering-hole of that too-too-common bird, the...
If the book at tunes has the stilted air of This Is Your Life, it is still top entertainment for the reader, with scarcely a dull minute and only a minimum of station breaks (i.e., plugs for Cavett). Cavett is no one-shot, gag-Line comedian but a man whose...