Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does Hamlet not quite come to life until the Prince is ready to die? Part of the reason lies in Director Stephen Aaron's approach to the play. In searching for a way to present Hamlet to a modern audience, Aaron was led back to the customs of the Elizabethan stage. Eschewing most modern "conveniences," he uses no incidental music apart from that indicated in Shakespeare's text, has no trick lighting, and permits just one intermission. Even the set, which was designed by John Ratte, suggests the Globe Playhouse, since it consists of little more than two platforms connected...
...theory, the director's approach to the play is impressive, largely for its ambition. And it is ambitious, because it demands much from the actors. They must speak Shakespeare's lines with more than usual clarity so that the poet's imagery may work its intended effect on the audience and replace the exterior picture of a modern set. Added to that, of course, are the difficulties which the dimensions of the play itself presents to any group of actors...
...performers acquit themselves with varying degrees of success. Colgate Salsbury, in the mountainous title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...
These gifts do not approach the dimensions of the Mellon Foundation's $15 million gift to Yale University last spring, but Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey and new Program chairman H. Irving Pratt of New York are now pushing for the large gifts, hoping that the end of the recession will spur these...
President Eisenhower's declaration does typify the Administration's policy of inertia in foreign affairs, which has prevailed too long. The President's faith in the U.N. is to be applauded, but his failure to adopt a progressive approach toward making it a more effective body is lamentable...