Word: gibbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Actor-Director Antonin Artaud, who held that the modern theater ought to involve and provoke gut reactions from audiences. The result, however, is a drama that is shamelessly alive from the waist down and shamefully dead from the neck up. Eloquence of speech is abandoned for voodoo gibber. The play is reduced to a trampoline for directorial acrobatics. Condemned to extemporaneous self-expression, the actors display no sense that they have mastered their craft. The audience participation destroys illusion without enhancing reality...
...alcoholic trombonist, has come home to die, and that turns out to be a play-length process. The son she has cowed into seemingly submissive piety sneaks out to bars, and surreptitiously plays his father's jazz recordings. A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus...
...time to write at all. Small (4 ft. 6 in.), sickly, and morbidly sensitive, he despised the world with fine impartiality, managing to skewer 63 "major" enemies in his verses and more minor ones than anybody cared to count. But he always had venom to spare for Colley Gibber, the actor-turned-playwright who improbably became the poet laureate of England. Of Gibber's appointment, Pope wrote...