Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest successor to Brooks Atkinson, the Times'near legendary daily critic, Kerr hopes to provide readers with critiques they "can understand, enjoy-if possible-and agree with after they've seen the show." Whether that will fortify the paper's waning influence on the Great White Way remains uncertain. Eder, a former foreign correspondent, will be assigned elsewhere at the Times, having rejected an offer from Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal to play a supporting role to Kerr's lead in the theater section. Said Eder of his unexpectedly brief engagement: "I think my work is valuable...
Shiva Naipaul is most weak where his brother is strongest--the ability to empathize with all the people he writes about. He does not try to understand why a nouveau riche black Kenyan has two freezers (which she never uses), whisky at every meal, gold-painted nails, and an expropriated mansion too large for her needs. He simply finds her ludicrous and tasteless...
BORING it might have been, if the directors and actors made no attempt to understand the characters and what Shakespeare meant when he wrote out their parts. But it would have been intelligible. At the Loeb, the traditional values of a good Shakespeare production are flung aside from the start, but replaced with nothing better than caprice and superficiality. The talents of the actors never have a chance to show themselves, because the director obviously wants to make a point about Shakespearian productions, not to present a play about human beings and their failings, the "nothings" that mean so much...
...silence of the Watergate burglars. Says Haig: "That's exactly right ... You just can't recall. It was in a meeting." Haig now claims that since he had held his job for only one month at the time of the conversation, he did not fully understand the President's problem. Says he: "It was an offhand remark that meant nothing...
...ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk art and dialectical materialism, the artists got more from looking at Lenin's works than he did from theirs. "I do not understand them," Lenin complained. "I do not experience any pleasure from them...