Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the cult of masculine honor is giving way in Tunisia, the void may be filled all too predictably by the cult of materialism. In the modernization process it is unlikely that in Tunisia, probably the most secularized of Muslim nations, Islamic considerations will provide much competition to the seduction of the West in shaping the ultimate directions of the liberation of women, or most other trends for that matter. This is the price that many developing countries have...
...play of middling merit fills an evening; the play of lasting merit fills a void. Subtly, or drastically, high drama alters our perception of existence. In this decade, up to now, the most promising young dramatists all seem to fall within the confines of middling merit. What knits some recent playwrights together more excitingly than their works is a sense that they are stage animals prowling their natural and necessary habitat. One such prowling indigene is Albert Innaurato...
...represents a reworking of past myths, she is also a symbol of moderns. As a solitary prisoner of her condition, she is doomed in her passion for another. She like Juan touches only images of herself--never her true self. Self-conscious but skeptical, both are trapped in a void. More than an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's familiar tale, Rappaccini's Daughter, now at the Loeb Ex, is a new play by Octavio Paz who grows poetry around the seed of Hawthorne's prose. With Hawthorne compressed and Paz added, the play offers a bounty of interpretive possibilities, some...
Janus said after the game that her aggressive defense was an effort to fill the void left by her "severe lack of shooting ability...
When she finished there was an awesome void; she shriveled up and disappeared. Gone. The next day's Crimson ran a story about a missing person of unknown identity. Gone was the fanfare, the Hasty Pudding's massive publicity, the flash-bulb impressions. Gone were the front pages of every major newspaper. Gone were our illusions about ourselves and the world. Gone was our mythology. Static...