Word: glorious
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EVER SINCE CONTEMPORARY SPEECH ceased to resemble Shakespeare's glorious language. every Shakespearean production anywhere-regardless of setting, costumes, or American accent-has unfolded in its own particular fantasy world. No extremity of stripling down or jazzing up can create the illusion that a Hamlet or a Romeo and Juliet takes place in the modern world; on the other hand, only the most through and scholarly accumulation of historical trivia can even hope to transport the audience back to the actual world the Bard wrote in. Between the two extremes fall the infinite ways Shakespeare is actually played-each...
...takes on the care of a certain ballplayer? Kuhn always rooted for Walt Judnich, a large outfielder for the old St. Louis Browns, because Judnich once spoke to him with extraordinary kindness. Looking up the record of Sid Cohen, in Kuhn's memory a Senators pitcher of glorious accomplishment, Kuhn was charmed not long ago to ind that Cohen had pitched a total of three major league seasons and won exactly three games. How much delight baseball brought the commissioner, only he ever knew, since he was no better at showing warmth than at acknowledging cold, trying...
Democratic presidential contenders view the political events of this fall as pregnant with meaning for their candidacies. Says Busby: "On that glorious morning after the convention of 1984, when the new Democratic presidential nominee comes down for his first meeting with this strategy planners, and he asks that inevitable first question, 'How many states are we sure of?'- if his people are honest they will tell him, 'Sorry, boss, only the District of Columbia is for sure.' " (D.C. has voted more than 75% Democratic in every presidential election since it got the right to that vote...
...Elkin is reaching for something bigger, a Fiddler on the Roof of Western civilization with self-deprecating navvies suffering every slight of outrageous fate, from wars to plagues and back again. Elkin's overview is encapsulated early on when the first George tarries too long before a glorious tapestry. The owner stays the blow of an impatient courtier, allows the stableboy an additional moment of art appreciation and then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves...
Amid the tradition of pomp and bluster, Peter N. Smith '83 has his work cut out for him. Smith is student government's soft-spoken, almost nondescript treasurer; it's hardly a glorious spot. But as keeper of the student government's first-eve $58,000 budget, the placid rookie to campus politics will undoubtedly become one of Harvard's better known student leaders, if not one of the most controversial...