Word: cyrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English critic Cyril Connolly once suggested: "Let us reflect whether there be any living writer whose silence we would consider a literary disaster." At work here may be the old harrumphing delusion of perspective: a Miniver Cheevy trick of eye and time Up close, most writers tend to look minor, to look like transient scribblers: aphids, small potatoes, twerps. One imagines a golden age long gone and a gray, leaden trivial present. effect is only heightened by the undiscriminating hype. One has to listen hard to hear any real thunder in the books...
Michael Allinson looks sufficiently like a troubled and suspicious monarch whose reign has not been what he anticipated when deposing his predecessor. He sounds a good deal like the late Cyril Ritchard though he lacks Ritchard's inflective range. Since the King has a number of lengthy speeches. Allinson's delivery is annoyingly monotonous...
...While Cyril Fisher, Al MacGilvray, Tony Sadberry and Steve Kennedy are out in the field, the members of the Commencement Task Force will be back at headquarters preparing for "any last-minute crises...
Even when a sound system is good, it destroys the intimacy between actors and audience, which is, after all, the essence of theater. Cyril Harris, an acoustical consultant for the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center, maintains that despite what many producers claim, audiences really prefer their sound straight and unaided. "If you give audiences a choice between a large amplified house and a smaller unamplified house, they'll take the latter every time," he says. "People know that what they are hearing in a large house isn't realistic. An amplified...
...kennet or haven't I told you, every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it." That phrase might serve as an epigram for all taped literature. Caedmon presents Joyce, along with readers E.G. Marshall, Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack in its James Joyce Soundbook, a boxed, four-cassette package ($29.95) with Pomes Penyeach and excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, among others. Other Soundbooks offer Dylan Thomas and J.R.R. Tolkien in resonant audio versions...