Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDMUND G. BROWN Governor Sacramento, Calif...
...annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
...After weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next five years: Edmund Blunden, with 477 votes v. 241 for Loser Lowell...
However, there can be too much directorial control and some players seem content merely to don the assorted masks that Carnovsky parcelled out. This foible seemed the particular property of the villains. Matt Conley in the most unkindest role of all, the bastard Edmund, exercised enough wit and restraint to stay this side of melodrama. But Regan (Phoebe Brand) and Goneril (Ludi Claire) ranted and raved, groaned and grimaced. Robert Benedict's Oswald was arch and despicable, Nick Smith's Cornwall took appropriate relish in kicking out Gloucester's eyes; these actors' evil was far too lunatic to be cruel...
...heavies' heavy-handed make-up job was more yahoo than human. The hair of Edmund and Cornwall was plastered, their cheeks puffed. The two sisters looked equally horrid. Their hair must have been set with an eggbeater. Even Carnovsky's make-up, while giving his face the cast of a Biblical patriarch, seemed at times rigid enough to hide expression...