Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the King returns to England that the director and Madden have gone astray. I said above that the role admits of great latitude in performance. One thing, though, is sure: Richard suffers, but he always revels in his suffering. He is a masochist. He feels, he intentionally embroiders on his feelings, and he can at the same time even objectively observe himself from outside. He is always conscious of his audience--even when the audience is just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial...
Although Gaunt dies rather early in the play, Josef Sommer makes him unforgettable. Gaunt's great panegyrie on England ("this scept'red isle") usually emerges as a one-key aria. But Sommer takes his time with it, carefully shapes its rhythms and dynamics, and lovingly introduces modulations--so that the whole thing comes across as a miniature scena with dramatic form. I have never heard it done better...
Waller rapped for hours about psychology, linguistics, (did you know that the Russian word for wolf is the same as the German one for people?) and American society (its schizophrenic. the phones ring too softly and the police sirens are too loud. in England its all very level...
...Jeff Beck was more approachable. He seemed like an intelligent sober young man and, I feel, enough of a personality to carry off greatness with grace should he achieve it. He should. He said he thought American audiences were more emotional than British ones and found this gratifying, "In England, you feel like you're on trial every time you appear and they will never accept you without reservations...
...still sometime before Wallace's planned arrival. The organist, who had one of those organs that can reproduce the sound of any musical instrument, began a rendition of "Baby, the Rain Must Fall". Colonel Laurence Bunker, advisor to Robert Welch, sponsor of the July 4 "New England Rally for God and Country", roamed around the hall looking thoughtful and masterly...