Word: calibans
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...repressed to allow himself an emotion. Miranda tries to teach him something about art and music, but with typical self-pity he says he cannot appreciate them because he was not brought up with her advantages. Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban-"anti-life, antiart, anti-everything." And she is his possession: "I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, always the same, always beautiful. My being alive and changing...
...that he would be on our cover, Burton agreed on the condition that McPhee do all the interviewing of him as well as the writing. The proposition was unique, but not unprecedented, so off to London went McPhee, who as a student at Cambridge University had watched Burton play Caliban, Sir Toby Belch and Hamlet. They came to know each other during the out-of-town tryouts of Camelot, while McPhee was doing the cover story on Playwright Lerner and Composer Lowe, and after the New York opening McPhee would drop in occasionally at Burton's dressing room, liking...
...enter these rooms through the hatchway; the camera hovers overhead like a voyeur, and the four walls vibrate with a new personality. The most fascinating of the four passengers is Pere Jules (Michel Simon), a crusty old naval Caliban who exists totally on a physical level. During one memorable scene he shows the captain's young wife, Juliette (Dita Parle), the souvenirs from his voyages to the South Seas: horns and masks, beads and three satanic cats that jump without warning and perch on Pere Jules' shoulders...
...scammel" may not seem like a deathblow to the language. Yet, the Shakespearean scholar, and certainly many others with a far less professional interest in The Tempest, will find no sympathy for an "unabridged" dictionary that fails to recognize words from the mouth of so marvelous a speaker as Caliban...
...warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man band," a "Patagonian." As to what Patagonian means in the Miller context, the only source seems to be Poet Karl Shapiro, who introduces this U.S. edition in the characteristic style of the muddled and ecstatic cultist: "What is a Patagonian? I don't know...