Word: boise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The six pieces attempt to represent what six authors--Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Odets and Williams--might have done with commonplace dramatic themes: love and letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure...
The story, first published in 1874, is dressed up with charming illustrations by William Pène du Bois and an intro duction in the form of a biography of Verne by Scientist Willy Ley. But there is perhaps one Oxphyxiated refugee from Quiquendone who now works for Macmillan. He...
The people of Paris celebrated summer in the traditional way. Young couples were laced together under the trees of the Bois de Boulogne, locked lip-to-lip on the Metro stairs, snuggled flank-to-flank on the swimming barges moored along the Seine. To the Gaullists in the National Assembly...
Unfortunately, there is no subtlety or coherence in the acting. Bronia Stefan, as the nurse, plays too broadly. She seems to be Blanche du Bois and Maggie the Cat rolled into one, but by parodying Tennessee Williams (something Williams himself must learn to avoid) she is not playing Edward Albee...
Physically, James "took the cure" at the baths of Teplitz. Academically, he obtained it in Dresden, Berlin, and Heidelberg where he studied under Du Bois, Reymond, Virchow, and Helmholtz. And for his spiritual malaise he subsituted at moments what he called "a sort of inward serenity and joy in living...