Word: demy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past form, he will be empathic, bemused and, in the nonpejorative sense of the term, Middle American. His style is a mellow mixture of an Iowa boyhood, a Stanford and University of Minnesota education, newspapering in Minneapolis, the World War II Army, a stint with the U.S.I.A., the demi-sophistication of CBS plus the vicissitudes of fathering seven children...
...course impossible for students to convincingly portray a demi-atlas and a serpent. Gordon Snyder as Antony was the less auspicious failure, while Susan Yakutis, charged with the greatest woman's role in drama, seemed more afraid than madequate. Snyder lapsed into manneristic anger, often indulging in worthless shouting; Miss Yakutis lapsed into the torpor rather than the lightning of a serpent, and was manneristic in her fire. Neither penetrated to the fire of the heroic ardor of will, the incandescent poignancy of love. A line shouted is a line destroyed. Neither actor was able to go beyond the lines...