Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bash or not to bash: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous trade practices. Or to take arms against protectionist barriers. To punish, to avenge. Perchance to trigger a trade war. Ay, there's the rub that must give us pause...
...with these foolish mortals. Love Unknown is his tenth novel, and his command of caustic social comedy seems complete. He is pitiless in describing the cliches of adultery so eagerly embraced by his lovers -- Simon's nattering about whether his many "meaningless" affairs have rendered him unfit for nobler passion, Monica's inflating to Wagnerian grandeur her demand that he leave his wife. Meanwhile, domesticity grinds on relentlessly, and it is the urgent and unpredictable demands of his large, eccentric family that finally defeat Simon...
Fashionably thinking individuals have co-opted Brecht's argument. They contend that to call one man nobler than another leads inevitably to... (Please read the ellipsis as an ominous allusion to Nazism...
...INNOVATE or not to innovate? 'Tis it nobler to experiment with the basic texts of English theater or to remain faithful to the immortal words of the Bard? Lisa Freinkel's production of Macbeth answers these questions with resounding indecision. Actors in odd costumes stride about on a modishly surreal set, but the performance never takes us anywhere we haven't been before...
...self-deprecating quips ("Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. I am used to being regarded as an anachronism") and a serious speech, which he wrote himself, on the dangers of allowing the teaching of technology to supersede humanistic values ("A good man, as the Greeks would say, is a nobler work than a good technologist"). The American Cantabrigians were duly charmed, and while Charles went on to the rest of his brief, sans-Di U.S. visit, they resumed their four-day-long birthday party...