Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to read Shakespeare to know that the nature of tragedy is ironic--how something sad can be bittersweet, how an act as pragmatically final as death can be a beginning, how the horror of the premature end of someone's life can recall so many wonderful memories...
...that the faculty council was Dean Tosteson's cabinet. The faculty cabinet is an independent body, elected by and from the Medical School faculty. It is the deans of the Medical School who carry out the administrative duties most visible to students, and in that sense they act as Dean Tosteson's cabine. The Crimson's version of my statement is a total misrepresentation...
...fiction and the one least frequently answered. Aaron offers tentative explanations to himself and others: loyalty to the past that Shosha shared with him, a mystic identification with her simplicity, even the conviction that Shosha is the one woman in the world who would never betray him. His act remains greater than the sum of its reasons...
...When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation," said Vladimir Nabokov, "the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines...
...Kopit has written it, Wings is more a poetic vision than a full-scale play, and Mrs. Stilson tells her story in one act of an hour and 40 minutes. It is a peculiarly compelling vision, however, and Cummings, 68, making one of her too rare American appearances, gives a brilliant performance in what is almost a one-woman show. She gives each gesture the perfect size and commands every nuance; John Madden has directed with proper astringency. Wings is in every sense a high flyer...