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...myself a rural creature. I really love New York City...at any rate I'm not sure that rural life or a big commune is an answer...The earth and agriculture are an index of something we need and are rapidly losing, the human animal is geared to interlock with all kinds of raw natural environments. The coming civilization--that doesn't mean just here, but worldwide--must accomodate people, it's a commonplace, I guess, ecology...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

...myself a rural creature. I really love New York City...at any rate I'm not sure that rural life or a big commune is an answer...The earth and agriculture are an index of something we need and are rapidly losing, the human animal is geared to interlock with all kinds of raw natural environments. The coming civilization--that doesn't mean just here, but worldwide--must accommodate people, it's a commonplace, I guess, ecology...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

Without departing too much from convention, the production shifts some of its attention from Othello to the man who drives the tragedy: Iago. Plotting on the edge of Thomas Parry's ingenious set (a terraced and tiered battlement of slabs that interlock in five different "scenes,") Ralph Pochoda (as Iago) beguiles the audience only a little less than he does his victims onstage. In the process of driving Othello to Desdemona's murder, he fleeces Roderigo with confidence-inspiring volubility. The objections of Desdemona's wishful suitor (played aptly by Rick Carey as a puppyish windvane to Iago's rhetorical...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Othello | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

...itself. Often hexagonal-shaped, the tiny crystals that make up snowflakes are as exquisitely formed as the finest man-made jewelry. As the crystals alter their beautiful structure under the influence of wind, temperature change, icy vapors and the weight of fresh snow, they may lose their ability to interlock. They degenerate into coarser, larger crystals and sometimes even into lumps of ice. Such "old" snow cannot maintain a good grip on the soil or underlying layers of snow. The slightest disturbance may tear it free: the sonic boom of a passing aircraft, the stresses created by a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The White Death | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...indicates a considerable dependence on the complicity of the audience, which is expected to accept the performance at its face rather than at its true value. In considerate society, the audience seldom lets the performer down-in part, as Goffman repeatedly notes, because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: Exploring a Shadow World | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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