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...year-old. As mentioned earlier, the lines of the musical are identical to those of the movie, but this repetition remains endearing at first. Then Belle (Erin Dilly) struts onto stage, and everything changes. What Disney marketed in the cartoon as a socially misfitted but introspective heroine who reads aloud to sheep has morphed onstage into a bubbly, happy Broadway baby with a voice so perfectly tuned for the stage that there's not too much room for real emotion or passion. So much for the changing face of American musical theater...
...greatest 19th century writers were often the most popular as well. Think of Charles Dickens: the serialized novels published in magazines were read aloud to listeners on London streets; ships bearing copies of the latest Dickens chapter from England to the U.S. drew crowds at Eastern seaboard ports. In Russia, Count Leo Tolstoy was revered not only as a powerful storyteller but also as a seer and the moral conscience of his nation. No 20th century authors achieved the sort of cultural authority enjoyed by Dickens and Tolstoy. For one thing, leisure-time alternatives to reading books increased enormously: movies...
...nine Richardson cousins sat around the living room, one of the brothers would read aloud from a Sherlock Holmes novel, a longtime tradition at the cabin...
...sort of audible shadowboxing. The deaf woman turns her brain waves into fast-forward hand dancing. Same thing." As a writer, I talk to myself in order to try out ideas--a rough draft recited to the pigeons--before writing them down. A playwright must speak the lines aloud. What's crazy about that...
When I first wondered aloud about going away, I found an amazing number of friends in my Phillips Brooks House Association service group, over dinner and in my classes who had taken time off and raved about their experiences. It seems Harvard requirements and Harvard stress may send more people to time off here than elsewhere, and it seems a healthy cycle. The people spoke of the perspective the world beyond the gates can give, and the sense of purpose it can rekindle. I am jealous of the gleam in their eyes as they talk about their time away...