Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later that day Mrs. Collins took me around to talk to another neighbor, Mrs. Lillie Mae Common. She had recently quit a cooking job at one of the local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...
Language Barrier. The merger brings together two groups that have held certain common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before...
...writer, White was unique. He took the schoolboy classic which is also the common memory of the race-the legend of Arthur, Merlyn and the rest-and re-created it all in a new form, part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic. As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England. He was born in India in 1906. His mother, who married reluctantly and late, regarded sex and White's father with total revulsion and her only child...
...whole, though, the company has been directed to play that text for all it is worth, and most of the principals are equal to the task. As an ensemble, they share only one common fault, perhaps an inevitable consequence of the production's drive for lucidity: at one time or another, most of the actors show a tendency to declaim rather than converse. As a result, the overall pacing of dialogue is sometimes slowed, and an occasional moment of insight or laughter is dimmed by pretentious delivery. Far more often, however, the line readings succeed in translating Shaw's stylized...
Steven Flax's set doesn't help a great deal. Part of it is furniture rescued from the common room, and the rest is badly painted flats...