Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vance, 51, is an unflappable, meticulous negotiator who quickly grasps facts and nuances. "He is not the you-and-I-will-get-to-be-great-friends type," one diplomat observed during the Cyprus confrontation. "He appreciates frankness and despises arrogance, and he has never said one word throughout this affair that he would take back...
...document praising his opposition to the spread of Ptydepe. Restored at last to his post as director, Gross has been so depersonalized himself that when the secretary appeals to him to keep her from being fired for translating his memo, he cannot even put in a good word for her. It might jeopardize his job, he explains, in which he is "attempting to salvage the last remains of Man's humanity . . . but I must go now, and have my lunch...
Father Hillman finds no difficulty in the Biblical injunction (Genesis 2:24): "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." Polygamy was common among the ancient Jews, he points out, and in the marriage laws of Moses, the word wife "is used regularly with reference to marriage cases which may be either polygamous or monogamous." Nor does polygamy violate the concept of "one flesh." Just as "the several children of one mother may be regarded as 'one flesh' with her by reason of their unity in generation...
...Dialogue only occasionally breaks through the long silences, and when it does, it is something less than crackling ("Will you go with me, Sigrie?" "I will go with you, Hagbard"). Violent emotions are registered only by the slightly flared nostril and the widened eye; mothers receive without a single word the news that several of their sons have been killed, and the heroine watches her lover fighting for his life with all the apparent pity and terror of a spectator at a close chess match. Yet in its own archetypal terms, The Red Mantle is strangely evocative, with the darkling...
Anyone following preparations for White Sale expected several things. The show could be depended upon to prove moving, disturbing, and funny, to weld gaiety to bitterness as easily as it moved from song to spoken word. The reputations and records of Mr. Mayer, his cast and his collaborators, put White Sale under a real obligation. As it turned out, White Sale met this obligation payed it off with interest, and moved on to do what theater seldom anywhere accomplishes, to deliver on its promises as well as its commitments. Particularly, White Sale delivered on the promise of its suggestive subtitle...