Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...does this relate to the issue of house lights? In my mind, one of the great shortcomings of theater--at least as a moral force--is that the sympathy we extend to characters while we are part of an audience rarely carries over into our everyday lives. The darkness of a theater may allow us to feel compassion for a Trigorin or a Don on stage, but when daylight returns and we meet similar people in our lives we revert back to judgment and condemnation. We have to. We are no longer unobservable. We exist, and so long...
...state of non-existence. To kill the audience, then, is to give birth to a new type of person, a person who is suddenly aware of his or her own temporary non-existence and the thoughts that characterize that world. The death of the audience may just fulfill the moral mission of the theater: it may just create a person who can extend that sublime nonjudgment of the darkened theater to the less-than-sublime world in which we live the rest of our lives...
...think there's no moral ambiguity to waking up past noon," Selsby says. "It's all within reason...
...landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing the intense light of reason on the past, he tries--at times desperately--to find an explanation for the moral outrages of his time. With his classical education shaping his intellectual proclivities, he cannot shake the vestigial Enlightenment belief in an underlying order to a coherent universe. Maumort is a man of the 19th century trying to understand a chaotic and morally perverse modern world...
...eight-volume novel Les Thibault, the story of two brothers--one a reckless adventurer, the other a sensible physician, during World War I. Du Gard stated often that Tolstoy was his greatest creditor; Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort displays the extent of this debt, with its high moral tone and extensive, incisive depictions of both country and city society. Despite this, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort at first seems a failed project...