Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Footballers. The U.S. candidates of 1968 seldom proved as adept, if only because the heckling for the most part was deliberately disruptive. Humphrey tried to ignore his tormentors, then to outtalk them, with uneven success. Nixon developed elaborate techniques to thwart hecklers. At indoor rallies, his aides often refused to admit unkempt students or others who looked like troublemakers. If shouting started, a soundman turned up the p.a. system to earsplitting level. Bevies of Nixon-aires, mostly off-duty airline stewardesses, did their best to drown out the dissidents with chants of "We want Nixon!" Republicans also hired beefy...
...Senelick to discuss his reading of the text with Thomas Middleton. For Mr. Middleton might thereby have been persuaded to eliminate or at least refine those premature bursts of anguish which mar the first act. Alternatively, Mr. Senelick might have been persuaded to abandon his brilliant championship of textually uneven plays on the grounds that world literature ought not be edited by graduate students in Comparative Literature. No one who has seen Senelick's version of the Cherry Orchard as comedy or his reshaping of Middleton will, however, take the second possibility seriously...
...current exhibition's answer: Both. Throughout his career, Kline turned out both superb and atrocious works, and the 92 pictures on display include rather more than a fair share of failures. Paradoxically, the uneven quality may even enhance Kline's reputation. Few artists could hope to survive such a warts-and-all survey. Yet undeniably the powerful radicalism of the mustachioed Pennsylvanian comes across-though sometimes as crude as corn whisky, and sometimes as bombastic as soapbox oratory...
...have, however, seen two mountings of the work since then, and it was a trial to sit through each of them. They led me to conclude that the obstacles to performance posed by this uneven hothouse script were simply insuperable. Now Michael Kahn has proven me wrong. How has he done it? First, by casting aside caution and bardolatry. He has cut the text (and I do miss Costard's use of "honorificabilitudinitatibus," a genuine medieval Latin term, employed by Dante, that for centuries was cited as the longest known word); he has substituted a few words...
...Uneven Impact. Of course, the optimistic view is neither unanimous nor total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles...