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...popular man. For 40 years, in books and articles, from pulpit and lecture platform, he has been irritating churchmen, ruffling educators, cracking complacencies and smugness. A canon of the Episcopal Church, and onetime warden of New York's Episcopal St. Stephen's College (now Bard College), he calls himself a radical independent. As such, he has become one of the most caustic critics of the manners & morals of his day. There is scarcely a sector of U.S. civilization for which Bell has not tolled at least once...
Shakespeare enthusiasts have an opportunity to hear a complete reading of the Bard's little-produced "Coriolanus" in Sanders Theater at 2 p.m. this afternoon. The production is being given by members of English 123, and admission is free and open to the public...
...Word That Came to Dinner" [TIME, March 7], permit me to quote a rhyme from the pen of that homely bard-the poet of the people-Uncle Walt Mason...
Richard III is prentice Shakespeare (some have argued that it is not all his) and in it the early Bard catches only the surfaces of evil. But he gives Richard two thoroughly vivid characteristics: a malign, gloating wit and a flamboyant love of effect. The role is an actor's dream because Richard is himself forever acting-throwing not a dark veil but a bright light round his hypocrisies, welcoming, not wincing at his bloody crimes. Seldom has there been such joy of villainy...
...third set is always played in searsucker jackets and the epilogue in caps and gowns. Just what sort of comedy the play is--whether it is farce, or burlesque, or tragi-comedy--has never been settled. But that is a matter for pedants to discuss. Today, as the great bard has said, we have another op'nin' of another show, and if it isn't "The Taming of the Shrew," and if it isn't in Baltimore, of all places, what difference does that make, so long as the lectures are at eleven o'clock, the reading is light...