Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chulkaturin's love is overly sentimental because Zoditch is not even capable of the mildest sort of affection. That is precisely why he cannot accept the ending of Chulkaturin's manuscript, why he must scream "I am loved; there is no other ending!" He has not even the smallest bit of the self-respect that allows a man to endure so cruel a fate...
...play has fourteen speaking parts. Of these only the two lieutenants Fedotik and Rode are minor (Kahn, in a felicitous touch, has given Fedotik a bit of extra business with his camera at the end of the first act, when Natasha and Andrey kiss). This means that there are twelve vitally important roles, with the subtlest web of interactions...
...none of them was selected for this production. Kahn is using a version by Moura Budberg, of whom I know nothing at all. Her translation is viable enough, though there are a few things she has not got quite right, and at times some dictional touches that seem a bit too modern for a late-nineteenth-century milieu...
...gloves, for instance: they charmed everyone. When asked why she wore them she said it was because she bit her nails until they bled. "Lynda's gloves" became a kind of family joke--among dozens of people...
...over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he had anticipated-darkness still." It is this Wells, awed, uncertain, a bit frightened, who is still a brother of today...