Word: flaccidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back. Paul Sapounakis' set tries for the monumental simplicity that the play requires, but achieves only the simplicity. Its barrenness is tedious. The grotesque dances of the townsfolk, which might have been a ballet of such grandeur as to fill the emptiness of the Second Act, were undisciplined and flaccid...
...cavernous gloom (man should certainly be discouraged from drinking on a day when Liquor would only bring on a bilious attack); and it is only to be regretted that they did not enlarge their prescription to include orchestral concerts. For last night's Bach Society concert was certainly a flaccid and weary affair for the most part, and perhaps far-sighted and selfless Legislation might have been able to put a stop...
...skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend in Sussex-who domi nates the audience as a waving cobra fascinates a mouse. With his small, reptilian grin and oily suppleness, he conveys the immemorial image of the big political snake, the everlasting reason why you can't fight city hall...
...university set up the center as a confusing blend of graduate and undergraduate studies. In fact, it was just another department with an amorphous mission. Alarmed at a possible flop, prominent Hawaiians campaigned for a prestigious director: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who judged that the center had a flaccid future, backed away...
...humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters; and in a theater season of flaccid falsity, there is something to respect in the way it rings true. But there should be more to respond to, something with personal as well as sociological value; and the play's own self-created mood is shattered when at the end the girl bursts not into a blind...