Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OBVIOUSLY, HOUSE productions cannot afford to spend much money on sets, but that does not excuse the lack of imaginative detail in Wyke's drawing-room. It was a clever idea to turn the Leverett House Old Library around on its axis, so to speak, converting the staircase that the audience descends into the theater into the staircase of Wyke's mansion. Beyond that, however, there is only a smallish fireplace, some dull furniture and a few half-hearted pokes at interesting knick-knacks. To convey Wyke's obsession with sophisticated games, Garry gives us a few propped-up commercial...
...publishing houses, but no corresponding rise in quality has occurred, no onslaught of genius. We do not even feel that in the great number of words and subjects--all that is 'said'--there is more truly 'revealed.' A disheartening monotony pervades the fresh editions of criticism, the flashy or clever works of fiction, the slim volumes of poetry, the exposes, the tracts of pop culture, etc. The majority of these bear no stamp of true originality, and seem destined for tired and dated shelf space, intellectual curiosities to some future generation...
...such an unconventional relationship with the University and with such choice exposure to students, Edwards has become part of the folklore of Harvard. The various names he goes by are part of the student contribution to his legend. The titles "Mr. Test" and "Mr. Exam" and the slightly more clever "Doctor Proctor" are those more frequently used by students. But he has gone by more obscure names in the past...
...home--and the play succeeds more as a comedy than a thriller, but it is comedy of the most superficial kind. The last scene, which dissolves into a farcical exchange between the two characters left alive, is horribly executed, but suggests that Deathtrap has the makings of a clever, shallow spoof of greed...
...Virginia Woolfs novels a woman character remarks: "I am made and remade constantly. Different people draw different words from me." As much can hardly be said of Messrs. Carter, Begin and Sadat. From them different interviewers rarely draw different words, however clever or persistent the questioning. Begin and Sadat in particular are expert at saying what they want to say, and no more, to American interviewers...