Word: centuryish
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DESPITE SOME FAULTY performances, the production manages to muddle through. Stone keeps the staging simple--rightly so since most of the action and movement is in the dialogue--and the show moves along quickly. The costumes and set are appropriately 18th centuryish. Richard Wilbur's excellent verse translation retains the spirit of the original text, which it follows nearly thought by thought...
...Parietal regulations are antiquated, ridiculous, nineteenth centuryish, and unnecessary. This is because: A) enforcement of the regulations are such that any enterprising, intelligent student can violate them if he desires and stand a good chance of not being discovered; B) segregation of male and female is unnatural and builds unstable and unbalanced personalities...
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