What seriousness should we attach to his remark during the same interview about that work's Donizetti music, that "Nobody would want to listen to it twice"?
Without even understanding the ramifications of voting, the seriousness of the right to vote and all of the history attached to voting in the United States, I was hooked.
To a certain Beltway mindset, it is the height of seriousness not to take political ideas so seriously that you attach life-or-death significance to them.
In 2004 cannabis was downgraded from a class B drug to class C on the official three-point scale of seriousness which supposedly reflects the harm that illegal drugs cause and determines the penalties attached to possessing or dealing in them.
One questions the seriousness of purpose of a writer who plunks his or her play down, persuasive note attached, at a director's door, as Anonymous reportedly did, and then agrees to rewrites -- but selectively -- not dealing with all the director's suggestions, in Ms. Boyd's words.
