Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept of par." Both he and Jones insist that fans prefer to watch a golfer battle the hazards of a tough, demanding course-such as Georgia's 6,980-yd. Augusta National, site of this week's Masters tournament. "Galleries aren't attracted by low scores," says Architect Jones. "What they want to see are great golf shots." He speaks with authority. Something like 40,000 fans will attend the Masters, millions more will watch it on TV-and none of the P.G.A.'s own tournaments ever attracted a crowd...
...into the open." In his questioning, Getty appealed over and over again to pride, looking ahead to the moment when the jury retires to begin its deliberations. "You are going to reach a verdict out of the depths of your own mind and conscience, aren't you? You wouldn't let someone sway you?" Prosecutor Martin needs twelve unanimous jurors to win a verdict; Defender Getty needs only one stubborn holdout to hang the jury-and retrials often favor the defendant...
...virginity. By the end of camp, she has found and kept a friend, but she still has need of her imaginary pal. "Just remember," she says to a teacher who intrudes on her illusions, "I am a virgin, the right kind of virgin, and in the right ways. There aren't so many like me nowadays...
Finch's direction is simple to the point of being unimaginative. When a character has a line, he walks up to the person he's addressing, speaks the line, and moves back to wherever he was standing. The characters who aren't speaking are given little or nothing to do while waiting for their lines, and at its worst, the production becomes a series of stage tableaux: two people talk downstage, and everyone else stands stiffly in the background. He makes an attempt at historical accuracy by having Abigail and her teen-age cronies enter the courtroom knitting (because good...
Miller was more concerned with theme than with characterization, and most of the male roles read like emblems or attitudes rather than people. As a result, an actor must add character through gesture or vocal power where the script doesn't supply it. Finch's male actors aren't good enough; all of them give unmodulated one-note performances. If an actor happens to hit the right note, as in the case of Tim Hall's paranoid Danforth, the performance can be extremely effective. But in the first two acts, Steve Hill as the nasty Reverend Parris and John Brady...