Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STORIES FROM A MING COLLECTION (205 pp.)-Translated by Cyril Birch-Indiana University...
Humanity & Virtue. Six of the stories that Feng collected-and presumably edited-have been translated by English Scholar Cyril Birch. Today's readers will have to suspend all their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability or credibility in the modern sense. The plots are supported by coincidence, and the passage of years is treated as offhandedly as a spilled cup of tea. What makes them interesting centuries later is a mixture of lusty humanity and shrewd weighing of human nature, an awareness that life...
...Peter Pan and Captain Hook, some of the greatest English-speaking actors have been charmed in taking to the piano wire or donning an iron claw, including Eva LeGallienne, Joan Greenwood, Jean Arthur, and Mary Martin in the title role; and Alastair Sim, Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, and Cyril Ritchard as the evil pirate Captain...
...tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Caedmon), lingers with such lip-smacking satisfaction over Hopkins' sprung rhythms, internal rhymes and clashing dissonances-"lush-kept plush-capped sloe"-that the effect is a little like a gold-threaded, jewel-bedecked...
FINNEGANS WAKE (Caedmon) has Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna mounting their bisexcycles and wheeling through Joyce's dream landscape with a flair and gusto few readers bring to the book. Cusack's ramble through "Shem the Penman." with its miragelike puns and softly melting sentences, is a triumph of rhythm, sound and suggestion...