Word: ephesus
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...think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...Thermopylae. 3. Troy. 4. Corizza. 5. Ephesus...
...great asset is Shakespeare's hoary plot about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But the plot is daffy enough to start the fun rolling. Once started, nothing can stop...
Robert Graham is excellent as Antipholus of Ephesus, but he still carries many of the pixilated mannerisms of his performance in "Brother Rat" along with him; Eddie Albert, the twin brother, is adequate and best when singing; Teddy Hart and Jimmy Save pall occasionally, but theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though...