Word: unkindnesses
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...most durable themes: libertinism and its comic consequences. Columbine matures as a perennial nymph, but she pales beside Snooky von Sickle, the brewery heiress of Wagnerian dimensions with whom Peachum shares many a back seat and shadowy glade. Yet love has its mysteries: when Peachum recalls having made unkind comments about Columbine's "doorbells," he feels a pang of remorse that is followed immediately by a twinge of desire. Peachum's entanglements are due to varying intentions of various d'Amboises. There is, for instance, his lust for Vim d'Amboise's wife Kathy...
...Viet Nam. These days, when reporters with pretty faces are all over the TV news, Maggie Higgins might not be the sensation she was in 1950. (In the new journalism neither might Bigart; he stutters.) But Maggie was the Korean War's most famous correspondent, even though unkind (or envious) colleagues accused her of using feminine wiles to get stories she might not have otherwise got. To silence this still famous argument at the reunion, one correspondent snaps: "Damn it, Maggie did it on ability. She was just a woman before her time...
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...