Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably, politicians who want to get anywhere in Oklahoma come hat in hand to Gaylord. The present Republican Governor, Dewey Bartlett, candidly admits that he owes his election in large part to Gaylord's support. Though he has not backed a Democratic presidential candidate since 1932, Gaylord insists on...
This passage from the ringing first novel in T. H. White's Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's...
No catastrophes befall these people. Their trials are in what one character calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only...
MOST gifted in this alchemical effort are Daniel Seltzer as Caesar, and Susan Yakutis as Cleopatra. Seltzer's performance is especially impressive: not only are his readings rapid and controlled, but he succeeds in underplaying effectively a role which would tempt any actor to bravado. As the ultimate embodiment of...
Where Caesar is magnificently consistent, Cleopatra is a little anthology of feminine character. In the course of the play she not only matures from kitten to queen, but exercises her option for whimsical action to the fullest. Miss Yakutis handles the various phases, moods, and transitions with considerable skill, and...