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Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...
...still relevant and affecting. Never was style so involved with, so much one and the same thing as the matter and meaning of a novelist's work. The unmodified, unmodulated phrases are essential to the dry, tight pleasures and pains of Hemingway's world; nothing else could convey with such on-going, irresistible immediacy the pure analyzed sense of "what is." Only thus could we ever have experienced the bus ride to Burguete and the fishing in The Sun Also Rises, the mud-epic retreat in A Farewell to Arms, Pilar's tale of "the day it began...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
...crucial words. Miss Tandy just losses them off in a natural voice, rapidly and impatiently--and this destroys the scene's psychology. She is trying to screw his courage to the sticking-place, and the possibility of failure is not to be admitted. It is imperative for her to convey incredulity with force in those two words...
Assigning several shorter papers during the term helps primarily to teach methods, approaches, modes of treatment and attention, rather than to convey a substantive mass of knowledge...