Word: clever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both plays, Stoppard's Dogg-speaking characters confront English speakers. These entertaining encounters owe much of their appeal, however, to the cast's versatility under the clever direction of Fred Pletcher...
CAHOOT'S MACBETH also has its clever moments. Stoppard wrote the play under the direction of Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout, who experienced the decade of "normalization" following the fall of the Dubcek government in his country. During this period, the government prevented many people, including actors, from pursuing their careers. This repression provides the context for the second play...
Overall, both Stoppard's message and his storyline are not always immediately apparent to the audience. The use of Dogg in both plays, however, results in amusing games with language. Stoppard's clever interplay of regular English with his own newfound dialect, especially in the Inspector's dialogue in Macbeth, makes them inevitably confusing, but well worth the effort...
Williams said that no action will be taken against the group by the very active undergraduate publication until the K-School magazine is published in mid-December. At that time, as one clever 'Poonie put it, "Our fancy-pants lawyer from New York will sue them for lunch money...
...computer owners most certainly constitute a socio-economic class. The Harvard Establishment, nonetheless, has forestalled the formation of class-consciousness among them by a clever, two-pronged strategy. First, through the process of cultural hegemony, the University has spread its cheery vision of the Computer Age so effectively that even those unable to afford computers have adopted its values...