Word: conveys
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Gibson is extraordinarily lucky to have the assistance of Penn as director and of Patty Duke in the role of Helen. Since Helen cannot speak, her every movement must convey something to the audience; Helen cannot be played as a mere dumb animal, for the entire play is meant to prove that there is something inside her, waiting to be released. Under Penn's direction, Miss Duke is more than a success in this awfully taxing part; without ever uttering a word, she is the most memorable child actress to appear in years...
...distorted yet far more powerful version of the same theme (see second color page, lower right). A woman almost bursting with the life of a new child? An earth bursting with spring? A moment swollen with the pain and hope of living? Were these what he was trying to convey in the figure...
...star, the C.D.F. next offered Macbeth. For the title role, it played a long shot by engaging Jason Robards, Jr. and lost. Although Robards' performances in 20th-century American works have been unbeatable, he proved himself as yet vocally unequipped to cope with the demands of Shakespearean language. He conveyed much through his face and eyes; and his delivery of some short, forceful phrases was admirable. But the longer speeches tripped him up; he could not convey the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He breathed improperly, so that he often had to pause at the end of a line...
Like Iscariot, we are prostrated by a weight too oppressive for us to bear, and it is anything but an accident that, as Niebuhr and Tillich and Dawson have shown us, religious language provides the most adequate metaphors for conveying our thoughts and feelings on this subject. But it is of the first importance to remember what the distinguished theologians themselves sometimes forget, that these are only metaphors. Only religious discourse has evolved expressions powerful enough to convey how intense political concerns have become today because the latter alone deals meaningfully today with what once the former alone could speak...
...song," she says, "deals with a person. I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else. I have to find the highlight in the song and work up to it-to find the motive for the song and personalize it for each listener." The fool's gold from the songwriters' mines may seldom merit such meticulous attention, but the measure of Felicia's talent is the astonished pleasure of her fans. When dedicated Method Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward caught her at the Bon Soir this summer, they delivered...