Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared among the other members of the Loeb production and the playwright. For Teuber is a brilliant actor, and as Jimmy Porter, the outrageous English rebel, he gives a memorable performance. He swings, dances, and shouts himself across the stage, waging some indefinite angry crusade, more bully than knight, but believable as both. The play itself is almost a twentieth-century Tom Jones, full of dark energy and strong life. This energy is what Teuber captures. "You're just an old Puritan at heart," his friend Cliff tells him. "Perhaps I am at that," he answers in a rare quiet...
From the opening horseplay in the Fat Knight's lodge to the final tableau in praise of folly, the operatic version of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor was precisely what the Met needed to dignify an otherwise dolorous season. Zeffirelli's sets were like Dutch paintings come to life: an ancient inn cured in ale and laughter, a courtyard full of gossip and sunshine, a forest too deep for the eye to penetrate. His cast moved briskly and well, as if every gesture had been choreographed, and his stage direction was so good that the singers...
...says Zeffirelli's sulky prince (TIME, Dec. 27). And Falstaff turned out to be the perfect candidate for the young director's fine Italian hand. Falstaff's metamorphosis from boozy squire to oily seducer to triumphant rube is a fine argument in favor of the Fat Knight's philosophy: if the world can't see me as I am, then to hell with the world...
Died. Luke Edward Hart, 83, Supreme Knight of the Roman Catholic Knights of Columbus since 1953, who guided the fraternal order to a $1 billion life insurance business among members, spent close to $1,000,000 a year explaining the Catholic faith; of a stroke; in New Haven, Conn...
...devote some of his time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight of the Garter, or both...