But if vestiges of the brandy-and-soda era clung to the plays in the festival this year, Buffman is conscious of the need to shed the genre's reputation for
datedness. "We need to have confidence in our product," he says "because it's not our goal to top the great classics by Agatha and Conan Doyle and the others.
Strangely, though, the volumes'
datedness does not diminish their value.
A blunt independence of view and a polemical readiness for the damning catchphrase ensure the memorability of these pieces, despite some
datedness of interest.
According to two essayists apologetic about the
datedness of their entry, expanded versions of these conference papers were prepared for the press during 2001.
If purchasing played as big a part in movie plots as communicating, an increasingly compelling indicator of
datedness would be writing a check or paying cash.
The second very valuable contribution of this collection is that it makes palpable a certain combination of
datedness and timelessness.
A pencil-and-paper questionnaire was constructed, consisting of five scalar measures, in the following order of administration: (1) the 60-item As Experience Inventory, from which 3 items were removed due to
datedness (As, O'Hara, & Munger, 1962); the response format is "Yes," "?," and "No"; items cover 9 hypnosis-related categories: altered state--fading of generalized reality orientation; tolerance for logical inconsistencies; role-taking; dissociation/exclusion of distracting stimuli; willingness to relinquish ego control; tolerance for regressive experiences; constructive use of regression; peak experiences; basic trust/interpersonal relations.
Kauffman's 1961 Richard Brome: Caroline Dramatist, subtly yet steadily revealing the obvious
datedness of that work.
But if this erotic ambition is one more aspect of Clark's untimeliness, that untimeliness may allow him to escape mere
datedness to disclose a new poetic future for us all.
The characteristics of the products and services that may affect satisfaction are the level of customisation, the subject matter, up to
datedness, complexity, reliability, organisation, language, and format.
They seemed to embody
datedness, staleness, and gloominess as apperceived by Liang.
The
datedness of Dewey's thesis ostensibly arises from his prominent references to "too much public" and "too many publics" in explaining the public's eclipse.
However, the most serious drawback to this collection is its
datedness. A check of the endnotes in the articles reveals that, in all but one article, the most recent reference is to 1994, and several have nothing beyond 1991.