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...boasts a tuneful if obvious score by Mitch Leigh, who has composed everything from opera to TV commercials. Joan Diener exaggerates her trollop's complaints as she screeches "One pair of arms is like another," but Richard Kiley as Don Quixote does well by The Impossible Dream and Dulcinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream virgin, Dulcinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quixote by Quixote | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. In a bridge game she wonders whether she should "discard from strength or weakness." Actually, she does everything from weakness...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Dulcy | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

...yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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