Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reality was unkind to Harvard last year. The cagers went 8-21, playing the roughest schedule a Harvard team has ever played...
When Alceste confronts the thinnest skin in the world, the proud author of a new and awful sonnet-he eventually pronounces its creation a "hangable" offense-he does not seem unkind. Scolding Célimène incessantly about her other suitors, he conveys not only jealousy, but some idealistic, crazy, husbandly delusion that she can be transformed into the only perfect being in the world...
Then, questioned about John Dexter, the unkind director of Equus, the face contracts in remembered pain and somber reflection. "He really frightened me. For the first time in my life at a rehearsal I wondered 'Do I belong here?" A beat, and the muscles set in determined professionalism. "But that's not important. What's important is what happens on stage." She admires the director's work, and cannot ignore his contribution to the play or to her performance. With complete sincerity, she says "I love...
...could people get so unkind...
...Some unkind critics might think that Rumania's party boss, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was trying to encourage a, well, cult of personality. Bronze heads and busts cast in his image dot the country. He has twice been declared a Hero of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. His uniform as commander in chief of the Rumanian armed forces is encrusted with medals. He has been acclaimed in the adulatory party press for "exceptional creativeness in philosophy, political economy, history, education, science and culture." Now, as a fitting cap to this imposing catalogue of achievements, awards and encomiums, the diminutive...