Word: transcendency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Characters are like boarders," observed Actress Elizabeth Ashley, 36. "Some stay an hour; some stay weeks. I like the second way of acting. You transcend to the character, and she takes you through her journey. What you seek is to be possessed." Earlier this year Ashley was totally possessed by the role of Maggie during her highly acclaimed New York performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Then cast as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's 1942 comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, she showed herself to be equally consumed during the show's 2½-month tour...
About Charles Ives. Ives seems like a pretty complex character--an insurance salesman who felt his work helped him "dig a little in real life," and a musician who celebrated in his works such diverse aspects of Americana as the transcend-entalists and the first and second world wars. He admired Emerson and once wrote that he "plunges to all roots at once." And it seems like maybe a profile of Ives could do the same thing, only the roots may be nearer the surface and the plunge could hurt if the profile is well done...
...individual can be anything he aspires to be (can "go to heaven if he wants to"). That is a heady belief until he fails; then failure is all the more bitter because it is his own fault. The nation as a whole can do anything it aspires to, including transcend history and escape tragedy. That is a heady belief until history and tragedy catch up with us; then we meet them unprepared...
...these things. Not only do you get an occasional gem of a character and a few priceless one-liners, but thrown in with the prices of admission are the things that make the twenties musical one of the crown jewels of the American theater--songs and dances that transcend the plot breathe life into the characters, and float the audience into a dream world where anything is believable if you want...
...last week's losing southward race against the advancing battle field lacked the objective detachment and human-interest perspectives that American papers offered their far-away readers. Maybe the discrepancy should have attracted a commentator or two, in a week when even tired reporters tried to make their stories transcend the day-to-day suffering they had detailed or ignored for years...