Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror of Blanche's affliction" may be, as Mr. Rabb claims, "her incapability of surviving," but perhaps this statement explains why his production never bores but seldom moves one. The fall of Blanche DuBois should certainly evoke a greater reaction than horror. Otherwise she becomes grotesque, and her viewers cannot take her seriously. This was definitely the case Tuesday evening; and, as a result, some of Blanche's most lyric moments drew laughter from the audience...
...cannot, of course, quibble with Dyer-Bennet's success at mastering his craft. For an age that thrives on contrived noise misnamed music, he insists--successfully--on preserving the integrity of the music he sings and plays...
...complaints are few and minor. Hiram Sherman, being innately comical, cannot as Ford quite convey "the finest mad devil of jealousy that ever governed frenzy"; perhaps it would have been wiser for him to exchange roles with Patrick Hines (Page). Ford is also too half-hearted in his cudgeling of Falstaff disguised as a witch; Falstaff ought to be beaten "grievously." Falstaff, in recounting his indignities, misses the point by interjecting, "a man of my kidney"; the sense demands, "a man of my kidney." Finally, the closing explanations of the triple elopement seem sudden and confusing because the portions containing...
From her first day in the convent, Sister Luke (Audrey Hepburn) finds it harder than her sisters do to give up the natural for the spiritual life. Of her three vows-poverty, chastity, obedience-she can keep two without much difficulty, but the third is her undoing. She cannot manage to keep the silence that is required of all novices; she cannot bear to stop whatever she is doing when the bell of command is rung; she cannot persuade her thoughts from memories and objects, "the vanity of this world." Her nature rebels because her will insists on nothing less...
...more sensibly. "They have a deeper insight into the scientific revolution than we have, or than the Americans have; the gap between the cultures doesn't seem to be anything like so wide as with us. One finds that their novelists can assume in their audience-as we cannot-at least a rudimentary acquaintance with what industry is all about . . . An engineer in a Soviet novel is as acceptable, so it seems, as a psychiatrist in an American...