Word: acted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LATIN PLAY.- Demipho, Hegio, Cratinus, Crito, Geta, Act II, 3, III, 2, 3. Harvard...
...evil, it calls for active opposition from intelligent citizens, and college men have no right to turn their backs upon it and slight it as beneath their notice. The suggestion in the communication is excellent and we hope that many of the students will see fit to act...
...interesting criticism of Booth's representation of some of his best characters. Mr. Copeland entered into the details of Booth's productions of Hamlet, Iago, Bertuccio, Richard III, King Lear, Shylock, and Richelieu, much more fully than it is possible to do here. He had himself seen Booth act in all the characters of which he spoke, and his criticism was therefore doubly valuable...
...singularly good to look at. He was of middle height and more closely knit than most Americans, but his body, though so compact, was grace itself. Every muscle, every feature was under perfect control, and it was this that enabled him to be his best characters rather than to act them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were his mother tongue...
...from the fact that we are in a world of forms and definitions. All forms are fugitive but substance remains. There is a substance under the forms which men give to their ideas of God. The substance underneath the idolator's conception is that which moves him to the act of devotion...