Word: cleopatras
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...Structure of Anthony and Cleopatra," Professor Matthiessen, Emerson...
Punctuation and typography (the counterpart of his musical counterpoint and bizarre arpeggios) are as important and far more intelligible in the verse forms of Dwight Fiske than in those of E. E. Cummings. The Fiske version of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra starts as follows...
...Egyptians called Cleopatra the Symbol of Love, But the Romans called her just a PUSHOVER...
...hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler. Turkey's Kemal Pasha, Poland's Pilsudski. A sow named Cleopatra was tried for high treason because she had littered two more pigs than the President had allotted her. President Roosevelt made a speech but, according to Gridiron rules, "reporters are never present." Neither are ladies-in fact, though not in theory. Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was only member...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...