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...doing, admittedly, he seems to have been unusually careless about small matters. There are more loose ends and unanswered questions in Lear than in Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth combined. But, except for the unsatisfying sudden disappearance of the Fool in the middle of Act III, these don't really seem to matter, so terrible and consuming is the sweep of passions that constitutes the main artery of the work...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Impressive 'Lear' at Stratford | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

...Watson moves lithely, has the proper glint in his eyes, and articulates cleanly, even exaggerating and toying with the alliterative b-sounds in his lines. James Ray does not always keep Edgar in focus, but Lester Rawlins brings pathos to the half-witted wisdom and grotesque postures of the Fool. The evil of Tom Sawyer's Cornwall is well spoken, as is that of Nicholas Martin's Oswald...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Impressive 'Lear' at Stratford | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

...answers are any better than his questions." She believes that this statement applies equally to theology and philosophy, and once told a group of freshmen: "Unless you have questioned the existence of God by the time you are 19, you're either a liar or a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: St. Joan of Webster Groves | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...Gift is full of the gratuitous delights that a child finds in toys or picture books. Fyodor, like most young men who want to make their name and make love in the same breath, is a bit of a fool. In one wonderful scene his clothes are stolen as he polishes his poetry and suntan in a Berlin park. He would as gladly split a bottle as a hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lord of Language | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children of the tantrum-prone abstract expressionists have turned out to be a tight-lipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Second-Generation Abstraction | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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