Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Style, style is the one thing needful for Earnest, and the Rep's actors can provide it only intermittently. In this most artificial of comedies the actors must look and sound as if they lived in the world of the play, not as if they were assuming certain mannerisms as...
Nothing of the sort can be said for anyone else in the cast, though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his...
But in the ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a...
Such a course might explore, for example, the theory of elementary physical particles or the nervous system and its functions, and would be characterized by a thoroughness which is not generally achieved in existing General Education courses. In particular, the committee recommended that the mathematical level of these courses be...
The story might have rolled from Simenon's prolific typewriter, and it calls for someone like his Inspector Maigret to solve it. The cast includes big-eyed, beautiful Dominique Lacaze, with a hint of mystery about her origins, and the two men of great talent and enormous wealth whom...