Word: elizabethan
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...abounding in theatrical trapdoors, loses the slow, relentless, staircase-climb of drama. Too much explodes, too little uncoils; much more is highlighted than truly plumbed. There is no law that the more sick and tormented the subject matter, the more severe should be the approach; but even most of Elizabethan drama, for all its blaze of poetry, foundered from an undisciplined portrayal of disordered lives. The disturbed people in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof seldom become truly disturbing; the audience merely reacts where it should be made to respond...
Britain, biggest of Europe's industrial nations, set the pace in 1954. Austerity and rations are now safely behind, and Englishmen are taking seriously the once fanciful talk of a new Elizabethan...
...orchestration as the crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops the brand into the sea, it is as though his own humanity were extinguished...
...Tinsley Green, England, Woodcutter George Maynard, 82, led the marble masters of Sussex to an easy (33-16) victory in a match for the unofficial marble-shooting championship of the world. Sniping "knuckle down" from the taw circle, exactly as their Elizabethan ancestors did, the oldtimers shattered the pretensions of their challengers, a team of U.S. Navy sailors called the Grosvenor Gobs...
Tuttle was an authority on Elizabethan Keyboard Music, and edited a volume called "The Tuttle Collection or Forty-five Pieces for Key Board Instruments...