Word: lear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...London, Sir Laurence Olivier announced his next project: to produce, direct and star in a Technicolor movie version of Shakespeare's King Lear...
...wife Isabella had French blood in her veins and gaiety in her heart, and she, too, had notions about education. While Amos read Scott, Dickens and Shakespeare for their moral lessons ("He thought that King Lear was about how fathers should be nice to their daughters," says Thornton), his wife read Yeats and Maeterlinck for their beauty. Mr. Wilder was always fearful for his children's spiritual safety, and was forever lecturing them on how to defend themselves against a wicked world. "Now, dear boy," he would say, twirling his amethyst watch fob, "even...
...director of the show, the 20th-century Garrick of politics, would himself take the stage. Surely Winston Churchill had saved for himself something more exciting. "This afternoon," suggested the London News Chronicle, "the Prime Minister must justify [his previous] words-or clothe himself in the mantle of King Lear...
...chairman of the board of trustees, marched in the academic procession. There was no senior or junior prom, since Bob Jones's 3,000 men & women students do not dance. Instead, the outstanding social events of graduation week were a student sermon contest and a presentation of King Lear, with President Bob Jones Jr., 40, the founder's son, in the title role. At a gathering of strictly nonsmoking (and teetotaling) alumni,* it took a while to light the candles on the anniversary cake because nobody was carrying matches...
...Costello), and this week begins a new radio series for the American Medical Association. He has enough reading projects to keep him busy for a decade. He intends to find time for another assault on Shakespeare : his great ambition is to do a really bang-up performance of King Lear, but he doesn't yet feel ready for the part. Tentatively scheduled for this fall is another reading tour based on James Thurber's My Life and Hard Times...