Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...anything, increased the doubts. To those who once asked new drama could be taught if there has to be no one to teach it, there are new added those who wish to be told new drama can be learned in anything as perfect as that! They can understand a man knocking sense into its own head by hammering a stage together at the end of a dining hall or the bottom of an empty pool but they see no possibilities of instruction in a handsome auditorium built or the purpose with mechanically adjustable stage levels and electronic light controls...
Such a play requires a sympathetic production. Every step in Blanche DuBois' self-destruction must be carefully prepared for; the audience must be made to understand, to feel, the process of decay at work. Michael Murray's production at the Charles Playhouse seemed not so much misdirected as undirected, and at the end of the play, when Blanche makes her final retreat out of the real world into the grotesquely refined world of her imagination, the spectator has no sense of the inexorability of her breakdown, no feeling that this is the way it had to be, for Blanche...
...conviction than from a belief that Goldwater's views were unpopular with the voters. Goldwater's Conservatism (always with a capital "C") is, after all, a rather extreme brand. It is based, pre-eminently, on the strictest possible construction of the Constitution, a concept most voters don't even understand, much less enthusiastically embrace...
Commitment to disarmament means enormous expenditure of intellectual energy, a sustained attempt to understand the ever-spiralling problem and piece together solutions. It means also a dedication to persuasion, to convincing friends and strangers that they must face the horrors of the arms race and themselves work for disarmament...
...deal with what he calls, "unquestionably the major problem for Africa," that of overcoming the many different divisive forces and developing common, pan-african loyalties and values: "There are Yarubas in Dahomey and Yarubas in Gold Coast who, because of the artificial lines drawn by colonialism, can no longer understand each other. Sometimes divisions like this are actually encouraged by politicians who have gotten a little power and want to keep it. The problem is to find some mystique which can raise the people above these national and tribal categories and make them think of themselves as Africans...