Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUTHER, by John Osborne, is dominated by Albert Finney's magnificent portrayal of the title role. Finney's Luther is fiery in ardor, tormented by doubt, and intoxicated by God. Playwright Osborne's major error lies in suggesting that Protestantism probably owes more to Luther's griping intestines than to his vaulting intellect...
...Alfonso, marriage becomes a nightmare and the big brass bed in their room an innerspring torture rack. Then abruptly-too abruptly-the film shifts moods. Regina is smugly, victoriously pregnant; the queen bee has been served. Soon Alfonso finds her frigidity as maddening as her earlier ardor. One last time she condescends, and he is carted away in an ambulance...
Nevertheless, the work is dramaturgically inferior to the other three plays. For one thing, it is, despite the gleaming hero at its center, less integrated. It is more a collection of scenes than it is one multifaceted play. Possibly Shakespeare was so carried away with his own ardor that he failed to lavish sufficient attention on the demands of structure...
...American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded his youthful ardor as a tribute to the ideals of free...
...generation tackles life with an ardor and audacity that are in bright contrast with the fashionable listlessness that was once seemingly endemic among educated Britons. They laugh easily at themselves and view the world with a wry detachment that is often in striking contrast with the prickly provincialism of their elders. Says Bryan Robertson, 36, one of the most influential art gallery directors in Britain: "The intelligence of the people over the past ten years has vastly outstripped the intelligence being meted out to them by their leaders. They're way, way ahead of the politicians. And there...