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Edward Finnegan, and elderly gentleman who naturally portrays the elderly Major Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...
Clearly, the power of a great play is in its performance, and all the closeted, academic studies in Harry Widener's book-stacked shrine cannot convey the language, structure, and force of Sophoeles and Shakespeare better than the simplest kind of theatrical presentation. "Hamlet," produced this summer by William West '49 and company, in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's Shakespearean Tragedy (English 24a) dramatized the possibilities of presenting entertaining theatre while achieving scholarly purpose. Happily, the idea has become contagious...
Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...
...broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back the desert; an Arab fellah hurrying his sheep to the side of the road to let a convey of British tanks...
Should doctors tell patients the truth? Indeed, asks Dr. Charles C. Lund in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, "Is it possible to convey the 'truth' about a serious matter to a patient?" The Boston cancer specialist's own answer: "Blunt 'truth' is not good [but] avoidance of the 'truth...