Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of passages obviously difficult to enunciate clearly--but it is still admirably suited for a modern audience because it stresses the excitement which the play contains. The director, D.J. Sullivan, understands this fact and has recreated Oedipus as a truly gripping piece of theater. Furthermore he and Harold Scott, who portrays the King, also understand the subtle rhythms of the tragedy, for in their hands the play rises through a beautifully timed series of climaxes to the point where Oedipus' anguished scream announces that he at last knows his true situation. Sullivan, happily renouncing any sort of theatrical trickery...
...director can present a satisfactory Oedipus without a very talented actor in the title role, and in Scott he found one who fits this description. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Harold Scott's performance. All the shadings of the King are here: the young and arrogant saviour of Thebes, the impatient investigator into his own past, and the chastened hero, who submits in a most touching scene, to the will of the new King, Creon...
...first visit to Spencer, Ind., his American mother's home town (pop. 2,394), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution...
Writing and filing have been catch-as-catch-can; the Western Union press representative, Harold Griffin, has lent his shoulders as a desk at an airport, has stood holding a typewriter while a reporter banged away...
...eleventh annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund last week, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macrnillan spoke somberly: "The financial policy of the United Kingdom remains unchanged. However, we shall continue to take such steps as we can to liberalize our arrangements for trade and payments." With these words, Macmillan dampened a cherished hope of economists everywhere that free world currencies would soon become fully convertible, thus permitting anyone earning money in foreign trade to change it into any other currency, spend it where he chooses without restriction. The explanation is that the pound sterling, dominating...