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Somehow, Kramer is worried that we'll miss the point (the world is a bum place). So he chucks away any thoughts of character development and splices together two-and-a-half hours of drunken tete-a-tetes to make sure that everyone on board gets a chance to bemoan the futility...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Ship of Fools | 10/26/1965 | See Source »

...only bemoan the fate of this poor play, too intellectual for Broadway and too epic for anywhere else. Still Michael Cacoyannis, so promising in the past, can shy away from greatness only with shame. For unless this production is reworked to achieve its potential, The Devils will remain a better play to read than...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: The Devils | 10/23/1965 | See Source »

...Americans were able to remember their own history, they would find these Simbas no more savage than those responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Perhaps one day when the white people of the West, and particularly the whites of America, can become true humanitarians, then the African states can bemoan the bestiality at Stanleyville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Summer Players Offer Light, Witty Production of Love's Labour's Lost | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Richard III is early Shakespeare, and it is also very windy Shakespeare. More princes rant, more queens keen, and more nobles bemoan than in any play of comparable length (there are, to be sure, very few plays of comparable length). Richard himself is certainly villainous and unscrupulous, even though the only motive ever put forward for his villainy is simply that he enjoys himself no end by being consummately nasty. But he is better than villainous: he is memorable. And he is memorable because he refuses to take the rantings of his fellows seriously. Everything they say is humbug...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Richard III | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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