Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rumored that Hinkey and Greenway, Yale's famous ends, will enter the Cornell Law School next fall and play on the football team of that institution...
...opera is in two acts, both laid in the cave of the pirates. They are the last of the band of the famous Captain Kidd, so that the time is the last of the 17th century...
...impressive manner, and magnetism, they separate at a certain point. The orator must be impressive, the actor impressionable. The orator impresses the audience by what he says, while the actor is most effective in showing how he is impressed by what is said to him. For example, take the famous scene where Othello rebukes Cassio. Cassio makes no reply, but stands dejected, head bowed, eyes on the ground, his whole manner showing the justice of Othello's rebuke. In this case the oratory is confined to Othello; Cassio shows how he is affected by what is said...
...have been forgotten because they have failed to observe art. Genius produces, art reproduces. In acting reproduction is the most important. Night after night a part must be played and give the same effect every time. If the actor grows weary, he produces a weary audience. Mr. Macready, the famous actor, once said to Mrs. Warner that one of his great speeches, which used to make a great hit, fell flat. Was it an old story with the audience? The character has been detected by his son in the act of stealing. "When you spoke that speech ten years...
...primary object of the society will be to arrange courses of lectures by well-qualified men on subjects connected with the history of Harvard and on distinguished graduates. Another object of the society will be to mark rooms or sites of rooms in college buildings once held by famous graduates by means of tablets of bronze or stone, transmittenda, or otherwise. Other sites of historic interest connected with the University will be properly marked if possible. Arrangements will be made for the collection of pictures, books and manuscripts connected with the past of the University and the proper disposal...