Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republic. His disappointment and frustration with much of what he saw is chronicled in Seasons of Discontent, a collection of reviews from that period. When The New York Times offered him the position of daily drama critic, he declined--at The New Republic he could "speak the truth as I saw it without feeling responsible for people's jobs," he said. The American theater had come to a "dead halt," and Brustein was considering moving on to general cultural criticism--books, movies, sometimes theater--when in 1966. Yale President Kingman Brewster approached him about taking over the Yale School...
...theatrical scene. His writings, diverse as they are, display a common vision: the theater is not, and never has been isolated from day-to-day human existence and the problems of any given society--it is created out of those problems and fed by the artist's desire for truth and dissatisfaction with the present order of things...
Despite the illusions of elite selectivity, the truth is that just about anyone who will put up the money is acceptable. Of course, matters may become more complicated in larger cities where several separate balls occur; some clubs may be more prestigious than others. And a debutante today is more likely to be an object of derision than a golden girl. Yet, even with much of the exclusivity and the prestige and the envious crowds gone, the debut remain de rigeur for certain people. But let us experience at first hand debutante scene today by recreating the events leading...
THUS THE LOYALTY test assumes for Jones an almost ritual importance. It is a way of keeping absolutist beliefs absolute. It is not the first the time Americans have heard of loyalty tests: McCarthy once advocated them. In both men it is the old Puritan penchant for the absolute truth surviving deformed through history, breeding paranoia and, in Jonestown, total tragedy...
...Southern Cal [Nov. 13]. Nobody questions centers for Hebrew studies at our major universities, but it seems that any knowledge of Arab history or culture is "propaganda." It is in America's interest to explore both sides of the Middle East issue. Perhaps Americans are afraid of the truth...