Word: caw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remote Lake St. John, where he makes his annual duck-hunting excursion. His work seems like play to most people because he has a good time with almost everyone, gently ribbing arrogant, hurried visitors, facetiously stalling intent and flashy wholesalers' "drummers." His laugh sounds more like a caw of a crow than anything else, and there's usually something--whether it's the Red Sox, the "Com'unists," or lazy college students--to caw about around the store...
...while vacationing in Quebec. Morrison lost the 1932 Senate Democratic primary race by some 100,000 votes to roaring Bob Reynolds, who followed him in a model T and, imitating Morrison's dignified strut, described to shocked North Carolina hillbillies Cam's favorite dish: "It's caw-vee-yah . . . It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia...
...danger for a play like this in the theater is that it will be all wings and no feet. But John Gielgud's staging is as precise in detail as it is ebullient in effect; and a finely blended English cast knows how to rumble the lines or caw them, toss them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously...