Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nashville, after a bout with Dixie cooking, Illinois-born Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner had one question: "Why aren't all Southern women as fat as Kate Smith...
...Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia Mathematician Edward Kasner (Mathematics and the Imagination), one of the world's top geometers...
...Lear was "every inch a king." He blazes through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...
...CORNELIA MANTIUS Glendale, Ariz...
Only one person appeared on the stage of the Wilbur Monday night. Cornelia Otis Skinner performed a series of modern and historical character sketches, all written by herself. It may be difficult to imagine an actress holding the full attention of the audience for more than two hours, but Miss Skinner has all the experience and technically perfected dramatic ability to perform the feat without the lightest trouble. In the course of the evening she destroyed 19 different women, and perhaps it is praise enough to say that she was convincing in every one of her characterizations...