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Carnovsky's control is never more evident than in Lear's physical senility. The king flings an arm upward to be imperous, but the fingers tremble in the stagelight. A fist shaken in anger seems to swing limply for an eternity as Lear's age vainly fights inertia. The movements are often ungainly or painfully awkward. Carnovsky is never afraid to make Lear look ridiculous...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: King Lear | 2/9/1966 | See Source »

...desperate or deluded men to call attention to the Anarchist idea." As an individualist, she obviously feels a certain sympathy for the anarchist idea-"the last cry of individual man, the last movement among the masses on behalf of individual liberty, the last hope of living unregulated, the last fist shaken against the encroaching State before the State, the party, the union, the organization closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Scorched Band | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

That second score imbued the Crimson sextet with a fighting spirit it maintained until the waning moments of the game. Harvard started scrambling frenetically for loose pucks, checked with gusto, and even got into about five fist fights. One of them was a wild melee in the second period which sent four players to the penalty...

Author: By R. ANDREW Bever, | Title: B.U. SEXTET OUTCLASSES HARVARD, 4-2 | 1/6/1966 | See Source »

Died. Henry Dixon Cowell, 68, U.S. composer and musical pioneer who remained blithely unconcerned about the many storms that raged around his slambang, fist-and-forearm "tone cluster" piano technique in the '20s and '30s and, declaring that modern composers "can't beat Beethoven at his own game," went on to pursue his vigorous ideas in more than 1,000 pieces, which he scored for everything from Pyrex bowls to lyre-like Japanese kotos; of uremia; in Shady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1965 | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...Battery with what?" the newsman interrupted, and Sims clenched his fist and held it forward...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Charles Sims | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

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