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...outcome is unsettling and the humor discordant. Nineteenth century critics often found the play, with its sense of ad hoc justice and seemingly black core, one of Shakespeare's worst; Coleridge even called it hateful. The twentieth century has looked more kindly at the play (less of a compliment than it seems) seeing in it a vicious and cynical tragi-comedy. Written in the middle of Shakespeare's career, Measure for Measure predates his great tragedies without foreshadowing them, and scholarly gymnastics aside, it simply refuses to fit into any logically imagined progression. It is a difficult play...
...adults crowd into Sanders: Harvard's President Charles Eliot begins the program by calling Cambridge "a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking peoples for generations to come." Cambridge mayor James W. Hall returns the compliment: "It is especially fitting we meet here today, having for our host an institution which, since the beginning of its history, has been so largely identified with the civil, intellectual and religious welfare of our land...
...better shape right now than Flaine. Why, you ought to get at least a magna." Heather snorted. The compliment was too obvious...
...dream. Says Dunaway: "It was scary the first time I saw it." She puts Crawford the Legend before Joan the Mom. Faye's judgment: "I have nothing but admiration for her. She was one of the last great movie stars." Dunaway is only repaying a curiously prophetic compliment. Listen to Crawford a decade ago: "Of all the actresses ... only Faye Dunaway has the talent and class and courage it takes to make a real star...
...friendships. "I should have long since given myself the pleasure of writing to you about your new book," she told Proust. "If I were to tell you that I burrow in its pages every night before going to sleep, you would think I was merely offering you a hollow compliment. But the fact is, [my husband] gets into bed every night to find me, your book, and my glasses. 'I am jealous but resigned,' he says...