Word: unreality
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...dynamic. Situation comedies and things like that don't interest me at all. And the whole naturalistic or realistic theater doesn't interest me very much. I don't think theater should ever be realistic. I just think that the power the theater has is in the unreal. Brecht, Meyerhold, Artaud--you can make a list as long as your arm of the people I think served the stage in the right fashion. And that's what musicals ought...
Such projects, though for "contemporary" buildings-bourses, railroad buildings and other temples of the new technocratic capitalism-have a curiously unreal air. They are paper architecture inhabiting imaginary space. How, one wonders, could they prepare a student for design in the real world? Yet they did, for the "real world" of 19th century French architecture was very different from today's. To us, architecture means anything built, from a cot tage to a town. But in France, l'architecture was the design of large public buildings, usually erected by the state...
...York bears little relation to the effect his policies will have on them--it is at least consistent with most American political rhetoric. A few pieces of home truth serve to obscure and even replace the real issues involved, and force the debate onto an arcane and unreal level. It leaves Beame pleading, sadly and lamely, that his convalescent is, after all, a member of the family...
...midst of war--violent times, times when machismo dominates. "Men who rape in war," asserts Brownmiller, "are ordinary Joes made unordinary by entry into the most exclusive male-only club in the world. Victory in arms brings group power undreamed of in civilian life. Power for men alone. The unreal situation of a world without women becomes the primary reality...A certain number of soldiers must prove their newly won superiority--prove it to a woman, to themselves, to other...
Congress is an unreal world-and getting more so. Talk there is cheap and wild and it is rarely accountable. Senators and Congressmen do not have to carry out their decisions, do not have to make the Government work. They walk away from responsibility after they cast their votes...