Word: cobbler
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...time when two-car garages have phony little haylofts and many a cocktail is supported by a specially crafted cobbler's bench, the ways of the early Americans are more often exploited than understood. Eric Sloane understands them. He says that when he closes his hand around the handle of an old wooden tool, he can all but feel "the very hand that wore it smooth." He succeeds in handing the tool to his reader...
...burned down, and the Sinclairs joined another colony in Arden, Del., where one idealist turned up with two suitcases full of manuscripts and left with Sinclair's wife. Another, an anarchist shoemaker, insisted on discussing the physiology of sex in mixed company. Expelled by the comrades, the vengeful cobbler laid an information against the colony for violation of the Delaware Sabbath observance laws, and Sinclair spent 18 hours on the rockpile...
...rnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough to vault the massed forces of the Wagnerian orchestra, and a baritone of considerable theatrical skill to probe the complex character of Cobbler Hans Sachs, one of grand opera's most intriguing heroes. It can also benefit greatly from a well-drilled chorus and properly poetic settings. Last week an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House saw a Meistersinger that had all of these attributes and more...
...Hackett, Terry-Thomas, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, half a dozen others. The show offers also an album of snapshots, each one approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone], of which the last is wacky enough to make up for not being Grimm-it stars Terry-Thomas as a sort of dilapidated Lancelot, Hackett as his squirrely squire, and a 53-foot, kelly-green dragon that looks like a giant bejeweled pickle...
...rule-encrusted town singers' guild rejects the newcomer Walther, and offers his new love Eva as prize to the Master she thinks best. The guild realizes Walther's rare artistry only when it is led to it by the commanding stature of the poet and cobbler Hans Sachs. Although the production, through occasional clownish acting, burlesqued this setting too much, it did capture well the drama's union of art's fantasy with life's conventionality...