Word: dauntlesses
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...that Rodgers and Hammerstein will write her a musical after the war and promises her fellow troupers supporting roles. Though her pulpy fantasies of fame and fortune are ludicrously out of reach, her brave self-confidence wins over her battered G.I. audiences. The soldiers feel a kinship with the dauntless Verna because she, like them, is risking her life for the sake of an innocent American dream...
George Hunt is particularly entertaining as Prince Dauntless the Drab, the weak-willed mother's boy in search of a wife and a way to untie the apron strings. Hunt doesn't sting all that well, but his comic sense is more than adequate, and he manages to stop the show a few times with broad gestures and a bewildered, hapless expression...
...work turns on the final understanding between Petruchio and his tamed shrew. She may finish by agreeing with her husband that a woman's duty is to be a "most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife." Call this a medieval Kate. Or, having been frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke. Or she may soften, ending up as a loved and loving...
Sherman Holcombe is the former shop steward of the Radcliffe Dining Hall. His outspoken comments on University/employee relations have won him a reputation as a dauntless crusader for reforms and a thorn in the side of the Harvard administration...
Sherman Holcombe is the former shop steward of the Radcliffe Dining Hall. His outspoken comments on University/employee relations have won him a reputation as a dauntless crusader for reforms and a thorn in the side of the Harvard administration...