Word: ado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...30th, the White House asked for a draft of a speech at Howard to put forward its thesis. On the night of June 3rd, the draft was re-written and after being read in the morning to Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and Martin Luther King, was delivered without further ado that afternoon...
...still have hopes of seeing a wholly satisfactory production of Twelfth Night before I die. Shakespeare had to go through the experience of writing the highly flawed Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...
...Ado about Nothing. To a majority of Chicago students, the sit-in seemed like much ado about nothing. The university's administration, like that of most U.S. schools, gives grade information to draft boards only on the request of the students concerned. And if a student could not thus prove himself a deferrable brilliant scholar, starting May 14, he could take the Selective Service System's Qualification Test, which many high school seniors could pass. The Chicago sit-in leaders held that the university, by not refusing cooperation with draft boards, is implicitly backing the war in Viet...
...much ado about little. The of fice at stake was Oxford's chair of poetry, which, as one commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (3 LPs; RCA Victor). In Shakespeare's funniest social comedy, everything depends on the speed and sparkle of the witty duels between Beatrice and Benedick, played here by two fast-rising British stars, Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, whose voices are whirling kaleidoscopes. That young theatrical iconoclast, Franco Zeffirelli (creator of a successful beatnik Hamlet), directed this National Theater of Britain production, which one critic called as lurid and animated as a Superman comic. The performance on the recording is robust but never bumptious...