Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerome Kilty thrives on challenges and obstacles; and once again he took a thorny classic and turned it into a viable and engrossing theatrical experience. The Merchant of Venice is a good play; but director Kilty made it seem like a great play, and this was no mean feat. One forgot that the play is poorly constructed and rather liberally endowed with passages where Shakespeare definitely nodded...
...long-eared men and moved the figures, weighing up to 50 tons, from inside an extinct volcano to stone platforms rimming the island. According to archaeological evidence, the job was done without metal, without knowledge of the wheel, without technical aids save poles and fiber ropes. How could this feat be accomplished...
...history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance ever devised in sport. Russian men and women edged the U.S. 172-170 in their dual meet last week, and Soviet papers duly hailed the feat, but Rafe Johnson was the big hero. Said Moscow's Trud of his performance : "It will dignify the history of world athletic records for a long time to come...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse is by now a part of the Anglo-U.S. climate. Scatty, erratic, now on now off the beam, Wodehouse has nonetheless pulled off the astonishing feat of making his creations a living part of the civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great...
...seems to thrive on challenges and obstacles, for once more he has taken a thorny classic and turned it into a viable and engrossing theatrical experience. The Merchant of Venice is a good play; but Kilty has made it seem like a great play, and this is no mean feat. One forgets that the play is poorly constructed and rather liberally endowed with passages where Shakespeare definitely nodded...