Word: convey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
...official pre-digested explanations of General Education convey little to a Freshman familiar with either the actual historical of the program or the way concentration and he is almost forced to look elsewhere for explanation. The Union does little to bring...
...universal need for love, is as obvious as it is worthy; the means of getting it across makes unfailingly good reading. Author Herlihy (Blue Denim, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson) plays with a kind of hurt tenderness over every desperate human confrontation. With originality, freshness and economy he can convey the seediness of a brothel, a strip joint, a hotel room-never once trying for the sensational or playing up the shoddy for its own sake. Having skillfully drawn the Williamses as offbeat types, he makes it effectively plain in the end that what makes them important is not their...
...stampede to the Bard: Brando is a unique genius, probably the greatest acting talent our country has produced (come to think of it, I'd like to see him tackle Ryan's job). In the title parts of Antony and Cleopatra, neither Ryan nor Miss Hepburn can begin to convey the magnificent, rich orchestration of the verse, which is so fitting for the overripe society it reflects...
...platform's lonely plaints about the dissoluteness of much of the United States convey quite clearly the authors' views that individual freedom is more than freedom from federal legislation. They would much rather equate freedom with a phrase they use frequently, "human dignity," and understandably do not consider padding expense accounts, exploiting latent sadism, or refusing to serve Negroes particularly dignified...