Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seasons we've had a marvelous rapport between the actors and the audience. There are 15 actors, all paid the same, all the same age--there's no attempt at having a juvenile, a leading man, an ingenue, or anything like that. All the plays we do have to fit that number; if there are 30 parts, then we combine two or three into one role," Havergal says. The company performs mostly classsical work, much of it re-shaped and re-interpreted, and the style is visually flamboyant, brazenly theatrical. Havergal says, "We do a lot of foreign work...
...whorehouses, and condemns a man to death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused, has been living unmarried with his loving, contracted fiance only until her dowry can be arranged. Their union needs no financial guarantee. Measure is not for Measure in Angelo's sentence; the penalty does not fit the crime. Every sexual union is a form of prostitution in this play until what could be called the happy ending, when four legitimate betrothals are made between appropriate partners...
...steadying Vance hand has probably been at its best in the Administration's policy on the Middle East?certainly the most intractable situation the U.S. is trying to influence. There, Vance's personal characteristics neatly fit the nation's role. Subdued, relatively inconspicuous, evenhanded, persistent, Vance symbolizes the U.S. as the patient mediator working to get the contending principals together. The issue has taken more of Vance's time than any other; he has visited the Middle East five times since taking office. Vance's gentle probing of the contending parties' feelings apparently helped inspire Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Like the Mikado, who sentenced prosy society bores "to hear sermons from mystical Germans who preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer...
...account--one published in Harvard's newspaper of record--as an example of sociobiological sexism? The very least Emmerich owes DeVore is a retraction and a deep, believable apology. Much more appropriate would be a reprinting of DeVore's full speech, or at least as much as can fit onto page...