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...Well lay underappreciated and unproduced in the First Folio for more than a century. The reasons are not hard to guess. Shakespeare gave his play the structure but not the spirit of a romance, and gave the leading female characters most of the good lines and gracious impulses. Commentators from Coleridge to Shaw have praised Helena and the Countess as among the "loveliest" and "most charming" of Shakespeare's heroines, while dismissing Bertram and Parolles as unworthy of the ladies' or our interest. By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become...
...casually, with a suggestive tilt of her head and a furrowed brow. When Taylor and Burton finally go at it--not only with records but also pillows, and newspapers--it's as if one were watching a parody of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (though that movie was gracious enough to avoid airborne and partially chewed grapes). Other scenes seem misdirected and heavy-handed. "I was in love with a woman in South Africa," Elyot admits. "Did you make love to her in the bush," Amanda returns, awkwardly toying with a banana, in the unlikely event that her suggestive...
...identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician, the son of humble Jewish immigrants, was a relentless social climber, impressed by the gracious airs and cultivated ways of the classy, Waspish headmistress. Soon, however, he reneged on his proposal to marry her and embarked on a series of affairs. All the while, he kept Harris on the leash she handed...
...floors have been converted into offices, and the basement houses a University social organization, the Harvard Neighbors (see accompanying story). But no structural changes have been made in the building--only temporary partitions divide the rooms, and the ground floor still sports the decor of the gracious home it once was: Oriental rugs cover the polished floors, furniture gleams beneath the quiet glow of fine oil paintings...
...mother, whom Tennessee always called "Miss Edwina," nourished the myth with illusory memories of a grand and gracious heritage. His father was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare home stays, taunted his son as a sissy and called him "Miss Nancy." His older sister Rose, an imaginative muse to Williams, tragically retreated into schizophrenia until a prefrontal lobotomy in 1937 immured her in a perpetual mental twilight...