Word: wesker
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...autobiography, Laurence Olivier remarks that bitchiness can be a "journalist's handiest tool." Perhaps Lord Olivier was thinking mostly of Britain, where the gift for malice, and the appetite for it, is higher than here. An English playwright, Arnold Wesker, once wrote The Journalists, a drama about "the poisonous human need to cut better men down to our size . . . The lilliputian journalist be the interviewee's fame, influence or achievement." That too may be more true in Britain...
...have," says Sir Roy, who has spent about 25 years of his life teaching adults and lecturing on adult education. The assumption is that art can tangibly improve the quality of a person's life--stimulating and sharpening his imagination, so, in the words of British playwright Arnold Wesker, he can make "imaginative leaps of understanding and perception" without which he would be "insensitive, purposeless, charmless and finally, destructive...
...swayed opinions on both sides of the Atlantic; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. He cut a precocious figure at Oxford, and by age 27 was drama critic of the London Observer. Admitting that his aim was to "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds," he championed new playwrights (Osborne, Wesker) whose work undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served as literary manager of Britain's National Theater under Director Laurence Olivier. He "devised...