Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenes, it is Jack Point, the unhappy Jester, who distinguishes the work. W. Barry Pennington plays the role with as complete a mastery as anyone could hope for in such a production. He projects Gilbert's conceits admirably, and at the same time is able to make the fool a genuinely pitiable character. There is more of the grumpily clever W. S. Gilbert in Point's lines than in those of any other part in the operas...
...hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before, and I succeeded only in the suggestion of a suggestion...
...misquoted: "I know many boys who got married and went plumb straight to hell. I don't believe a man ought to get married unless he cannot help it. I mean to say ... a man who gets married without being wild about the girl is just a plain fool...
...vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer boarding house run by a wellborn, middle-aged spinster. The guests are largely people of her own generation and kind-fiberless, frustrated people: a quiet, cynical drinker who has never married; a quiet-seeking general married to a fool; a confused young man halfheartedly about to marry the spinster's French niece...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...