Word: self
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Different Ending. Probably Simon is too normal (if the word does not sound pejorative) to intuit the inner nature of the characters he has put onstage. He is too self-disciplined, too efficient, too morally responsible, ever to be able to understand an Evy except from the outside. Laughter is a form of incessant motion in Simon's work. It is a self-protective device by which his characters dodge the bullets of real pain. Simon uses a joke both to ward off hurt and to assuage it. In a play like The Gingerbread Lady, this use of laughter...
...biggest and most important such conference to date produced more than 140 papers describing the danger. For example, two French scientists, Georges Bellan and Jean-Marie Peres, expressed alarm about the Mediterranean. Not only is human waste soiling beaches from Tel Aviv to Trieste, they said, but the "self-cleansing" power of the sea itself can no longer cope with the volume of untreated excrement and industrial waste now pouring into it. As a result, the scientists told their colleagues, "The Mediterranean is rushing toward complete pollution...
...music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from the interests of large audiences. One reason that every year is a Beethoven year, not just 1970, is that no composer since has been able to match the towering combination of talent, energy and soul that made his self-expression worth listening...
Inexcusable Incident. The trial had promised to be far more orderly when it began last month. The defendants, to be sure, were self-styled revolutionaries, clenching their fists defiantly and spouting obscenities at law enforcement officials to prove their credentials. Still, many observers felt that able defense attorneys like Michael Tigar (TIME, Dec. 14) and a cautious judge like Boldt could control any courtroom antics...
Dickens' feeling of being let down by his mother was the first of several jolts to his self-indulgent idealization of women. At 21 he tried to place a girl named Maria Beadnell in the role of an angelic object of worship. She ended by jilting him. Later he cast his wife-the bland, slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable...