Word: finneganisms
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...Each and every poem is charged with meaning," he said, using a recording of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake as an example. Here, Joyce has tried to make the sound of his words carry the meaning of his piece, MacLeish explained...
Instead, the President ordered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's Director Joseph F. Finnegan to help work out a voluntary settlement. After separate sessions with the steelworkers and with the Big Steel negotiators, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, Finnegan was grim, saw no hope for an "easy or early solution...
...play at all, but a novel galvanized!" Taking over the function of a novel's omniscient narrator, Wilder's Stage Manager, the instrument by which he creates the largely invisible, but believable world of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, must be impeccable in both manner and dialogue. Edward Finnegan, the Stage Manager in the Charles Players' production is all this and more, and most of the play's success can be attributed to his well-timed gestures of hat and pipe and his thoroughly "North of Boston" accent...
...John Heffernan, who must surely have the best-exercised neck-muscles on the American stage. When Mr. Heffernan finally drops his mannerisms near the end of the play, it becomes clear that they have been largely concealing a good strong piece of acting. Mary Weed, Olympia Dukakis, and Edward Finnegan contribute excellent work in a generally in-and-out cast...
...compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which is of no special interest; Lewis W.Lehman's lights are excellent, as are Esther Small...