Word: epilog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
...England. They may feel also that the central character of a philosophical football player, a young millionaire who sickens and fades because his moral standards cannot be reconciled with the world's madness, is too extreme and implausible to be trusted. Such criticisms the author answers in an epilog, employing the old device of a dialog between the author and one of the characters who objects to his role in the book. A naturalist in philosophy, George Santayana is no naturalistic novelist, concerns himself little with realistic details. Instead, he has attempted to express the "poetic truth," rather than...
This expression of surprise last week was the more remarkable because in 1933 the Ochs memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
Like last week's other revivals (see cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter Prichard Eaton, which attempted to give Twelfth Night the flavor of a play within a play. In the prolog, while the players bargained with an innkeeper and set up their props, supernumeraries, representing members of a 17th Century audience at a country theatre "try-out," gathered in the stage boxes...
...spread his arms wide and the orchestra sounded quietly, richly. Then Baritone Schorr, whose father was a cantor, started to intone the Mali Tovu ("How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob"). The chorus rose to one climax after another. Cymbals and tympani triumphed over melancholy woodwinds. In the epilog, Baritone Schorr abandoned Hebrew for English: "May the time not be distant, O God, when Thy Name shall be worshipped in all the Earth. . . ." It was Bloch's way of showing that in spirit his Service was universal, as much for Gentiles as for Jews. And as a full-blooded...