Word: dramatise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Chicago, the dramatis personae include a wizened, erratic and irascible judge who admits that "I am not an altogether modest fellow." The prosecutor is an ambitious young U.S. attorney held over from the Democratic Administration to try eight of the nation's leading radicals on an anticonspiracy law...
Carnovsky himself has lucidly discussed his original view of the part in the essay "On Playing the Role of Shylock," which he wrote for the 1958 Laurel edition of the work, and which I highly recommend. Carnovsky's 1967 Shylock is a considerably less sympathetic figure than the 1957 one...
Scene: the White House lawn. Time: after 10 p.m. on the night of a crucial U.N. Security Council debate on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Dramatis personae: CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather and a camera crew that he kept on after others left, in hopes of getting a post-debate...
With a less prepossessing dramatis personae, more careful attention to garnering substance instead of polemic, and a layout more dramatic and attractive, Y.P. may succeed in proving its fundamental objective a sound one. For the moment, it has poured a stinking and vinagery old wine into a new, blue bottle...