Word: eustacia
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Noting the scarcity of men, young voters and college students, Eustacia L. Reidy '99 said she wished "that more undergraduates could have attended" the event...
...eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw a photograph of the departed First Lady into...
...lost as on the first day after the Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd, Eustacia Vye of The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
...dull, and clumsy (if Miss Manning has an analyst, she might ask him about her strange compulsion to make her actors stand in the down left corner with their backs to the persons whom they are ostensibly addressing). The acting ranges from close-but-no-cigar to indescribably painful. Eustacia Grandin, Stephen Aaron, and Jack Rogers have their moments, and all are at least better than the play deserves...
Given more clearly-defined roles, Eustacia Grandin, Robert Beaty, and William Morris Hunt turn in three excellent performances. Miss Grandin is captivatingly acidulous as Celimene, the coquettish object of Alceste's affections, and certainly makes the most of her own talents and adroit direction in bringing out everything the role has to offer. The good-hearted cynicism of Philinte comes across delightfully in Beatey's highly amusing performances, and Hunt handles the confident pomposity of Oronte with his usual competent vigor...