Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders parted after midnight, both looked glum. On Sunday, Carter attended St. Andrew's Church and later paid tribute at the Yad Vashem memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of Nazism. Wearing a yarmulka, he placed a wreath at the memorial and observed that it was impossible to understand Israel without recognizing what was symbolized there...
Staff member Mark B. Wenneker '80 said yesterday non-scientists at Harvard think scientists speak another language. "Society can and should understand the issues in order to make intelligent decisions about the kind of science they wish to promote," he added...
...understand what the departure of a Tom Seaver from New York or a Luis Tiant from Boston really means, one must understand the game as Nelson does. Baseball is a regular part of people's lives--not a once-a-week cathartic orgy of violence like football, or a repititious, unemotional sprint like basketball. Baseball strolls into America every spring, a welcome member of the family returned home for an annual visit...
This isn't the Saturday night Rockford, you understand--that one's a clone, albeit a very cool clone. This is the Late Night Rockford, on Monday and Wednesday nights at 11:30 on Channel 7. At midnight, when you're coaxing those last twelve drops out of a half-gallon of Jim Beam, Rockford can become an objective correlative of your internal landscape. A very cool objective correlative...
...that his show is not supposed to be original. The characters are "blissful stereotypes all," the note says. The note's existence points to the major flaw in Sellon's directing: He is not secure enough to let the audience find things funny without prodding, and he doesn't understand that even stereotypes need life breathed into them. In addition, Sellon lacks technical skills as a director. Characters turn upstage for no apparent reason, or stare at the ceiling in obvious discomfort. Sellon chooses to have actors find their puns stupendously funny, depriving the audience of a chance...