Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, Mr. Hampden's version stretches across three hours and 30 minutes of the watcher's time. The play is simply not sufficiently invigorating to sustain the stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable...
Matriarchy, recurring through several generations of a family, is never without the suggestion that original female promiscuity has brought fatherhood into disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book...
...considerable clique of Manhattan sages to whom Gilbert and Sullivan are the dual Messiahs of light musical entertainment, the values of the script and score were all-sufficient. To the casual wanderer seeking just a real good show, the miniature may seem in spots a trifle indistinct...
...dead; and when that bull-his 18th-gored him, he left the sport, which was his casual pastime, to devote himself to painting, which was his vocation. Last week, he set foot in the U. S. bringing with him 45 can vases which he is to exhibit in this country...
...Even a casual saunter along the Square betrays the progress of some untoward migration. The restless mien of the Massachusetts Avenue flaneurs, the noisy preoccupation of last classes, the impatience of packers, the mad impetuosity of the Subway rush all give witness to the universal urge to departure. And what varied attractions the holiday holds...