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...brass band and drum, but when he at last appears we see a most ordinary man (dressed up, to be sure), lacking all force of personality. By no stretch of the imagination could Cassius say that this Caesar " doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus." In the brief colloquy between Caesar and Decius Brutus, the latter exhibits much more magnetism, as played by James Harper, and I wish the two actors had exchanged roles...
Monday, October 30: Religion Department Colloquy--Michael Walzer, professor of Government at Harvard will discuss 'Just and Unjust Wars," Coolidge Room, 8 pm. Refreshments...
...redressed (and given the intransigence of the Harvard male that will be ages hence) men are in fact committing an act of "forceful penetration" whenever they wilfully barge in where women are discussing their own delicate, personal affairs. Oafish Harvard males need not apply in this or any similar colloquy where women are privately formulating the structure of reality...
...solution: though purchasers get identical films, the explanatory materials are offered in two editions, prepared by different sets of scholars. One version is aimed at those buyers who accept the Bible as reliable history, the other at those who accept more mythic interpretations of some biblical events. A colloquy in the liberal edition of Bible Times, for example, suggests Mesopotamian influences on the Creation story, while a discussion in the conservative edition upholds unique inspiration by the Holy Spirit...
...moral viewpoint and becomes the tragic hero of the play. The part is here entrusted to Don Murray, who does make an earnest attempt. He starts off all right; but as soon as the role begins to make heavier demands, his shortcomings are evident. In his second-act colloquy with the Reverend Hale, Proctor has an exceedingly important remark: "Is the accuser always holy now?" Murray hurries over this so that the idea is all but lost...