Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARTICIPATION in community action is not enough. We should try, really try, to change our personal patterns of behavior. Such efforts will not take as much time as organized projects, but they will be just as difficult. Even smiling seems a terrific task at this time of year. How about greeting people whom we know but haven't greeted in months? Writing to people we haven't written to in years? Doing little favors for no reason at all? Finding people who deserve our thanks, and saying "Thank you," and meaning...
...General Faculty of the university held a special meeting at which they adopted a resolution harshly condemning Erwin for his general actions during his term as Regent and especially for his behavior at the "Battle of Waller Creck." If he refused to resign, it said, the faculty would institute impeachment proceedings against him in the Texas legislature. That is a nice gesture, but it probably won't work because Erwin is so powerful in Texas. He was a successful lawyer who became a crony of LBJ and Connally, and rose with them. Connally appointed him a Regent...
Despite differences in content. Griffith's dramatic vision agrees intriguingly with Hawthorne's. He uses apparently straight moral romances to express unsettling notions of behavior. Characters embody not simple virtues and vices, but complex obsessions: the marquis of Orphans of the Storm personifies the insanity of decadence as surely as Hawthorne's Chillingworth contains the full perversity of hellish guilt. At the roots of his complex plot construction lie details quite at odds with the pure sentiments to which his characters aspire. His films form an elaborate psychological autobiography through the diverse characters between whom they alternate...
Here he loses the variousness of tone and emphasis in Hawthorne and Griffith. He builds a drama of natural behavior in a specific social, rather than ideal, setting. Griffith's abstractions and idealization disappear and with them the need to assault the audience with quick cutting to put across the characters' emotions. A much more direct realization of his material characterizing Seastrom's work. makes this work simply a powerful rendition of a story of thwarted love...
...reason for this is that both playgoer and actor are forced to divest themselves of casual everyday preoccupations and behavior patterns. As Grotowski puts it, he wants to demonstrate "what is behind the mask of common vision: the dialectics of human behavior. At a moment of psychic shock, a moment of terror, of mortal danger or tremendous joy, a man does not behave 'naturally.' " By attacking the whole concept of natural behavior, Grotowski divorces himself from the cult of psychological realism, as exemplified, in the Actors' Studio. The Actors' Studio idea is that the self...