Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players have managed to assure that every single one of these average people is unique, is an individual, is a three-dimensional character, with a past, a present, and--this is important--a future. Chekhov envisions a happier future for later, generations, and underlines the necessity of hard work and hope. The play has a moderately upbeat ending -- though many don't seem to realize it. The Three Sisters is not a tragedy (a label Chekhov never used: it, like Ivanov, is a "drama"; The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard are "comedy"; Uncle Vanya is called "scenes from country life...
Marcia Tucci brings a glowing radiance to Irina, the youngest, who is loved by two men she cannot love and who ardently believes in the restorative power of hard work. One can see her vision of the future in her very eyes...
...reader slips into the author's atmosphere of old Odessa as if it were a familiar coat. Within a framework of shop-lined streets, savory meals and sturdy furnishings, the young narrator casually spins the tale of his grandmother, an embittered illiterate who urges her grandson to study hard and learn everything. To her, knowledge is not an instrument of discovery but a weapon of revenge that will bring the world to its knees...
...hard to remember H. G. Wells except as a caricature. He looms as a kind of cartoon figurehead on the prow of the 20th century-plump and cheerful, goggle-eyed with confidence, breasting a sea labeled Progress...
Class is a very hard quantity to define. Does Frank Sinatra have class? The Crown Prince of England? Does a Rolls Royce have more class than a Mark VII Jaguar? Does Jacqueline Onassis have class? How about Raquel Welch...