Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long on valor but considerably shorter on value. Typical of this arena is Collision Course, a show consisting of eleven short plays, most of them by café-nurtured playwrights, presented last week at Manhattan's Café Au go Go. All were esthetic stillbirths. Alternating between juvenile temper tantrums and thumb-sucking private reveries, they dwelt on the tried-and-trite themes of alienation, lack of communication, male-female hostility, the nausea of being an American, and the pending nuclear apocalypse. In terms of the development of first-caliber playwrights, off-off-Broadway is still a dramatic pygmyland...
...account of the state of the drama can ignore the society around it, since the theater is the most social of all art forms. Drama of sweep and scope makes large statements about the nature of life and refracts the temper of the times. All the great ages of theater have possessed a vaulting image of man, and an absorptive, undeviating concern with his destiny. "In apprehension, how like a god" is not casual Elizabethan rhetoric, but the supremely assured recognition that man is the noblest, grandest creature that walks the earth. And what does contemporary U.S. society...
...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...
...really a play, it is a variety of some other distinctly interesting things. Based on two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is a kind of animated syllabus on the making of the New England mind, and a soul-scorching look at the Calvinistic implacability of the Puritan temper. It contains the implicit suggestion that in the despoliation and murder of the Indians was born a legacy of violence that has remained a melancholy strand of American life...
...head-lady told me that I didn't have to leave, he just lost his temper. 'I'm goin,' I told her, 'he may lose his temper...