Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please inform that fathead (doesn't rhyme with anything) of yours that the Tigers of Detroit are still in the American League. Possibly he will find out for himself in September.
The shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril...
Later in the Laughton version, Lear's return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened. Every gesture showed a man returning to reality, to learning, understanding, forgiveness, until he is himself forgiven.
The teenage, 5-ft. 2-in. "dwarf" of this book first saw hard covers years ago in Shulman's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. A sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains...
At the end, doomed from the first to failure by Author Sitwell's indifference to the search, the hero finds himself back home. Was he really on a Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell...