Word: cavil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jordan turns in a performance with which there can be no real cavil." CRIMSON, April 10; As You Like...
...Only in the first scene can there be any cavil with Scott." CRIMSON, April 18; King Lear...
...with (Nielson's) acting there can be no cavil." CRIMSON, April 25; The Sorcerer...
...sorcerer himself receives a magnificent interpretation from Benjamin Nielson. His singing, costume and makeup suit the role perfectly and with his acting there can be no cavil. His rapid-fire patter song is a genuine show-stopper. As his page, nine-year-old Nicky Deutsch is charming...
...seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved...