Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival at the Loeb last night, offered evidence that it can be done--done well--and that Lear is as great theater as it is literature...
...translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a king." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughs...
Shakespeare King Lear...
...most exciting of the new jets is the sleek Lear Jet (cost: $575,000), which cruises at 530 m.p.h. and can outclimb an F-100 fighter plane to 10,000 ft. Builder William Lear Sr. calls it "the fighting businessman's jet." He has firm orders for 21, hopes to start delivery at the rate of eight monthly by year's end. Among his customers: Rexall, Kroehler and German Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza...
...mimsy borogoves. John Lennon, the writing Beatle ("He's the arty one"), is-in his own way-describing the members of the Neville Club as they sit in hubbered lumps smoking Hernia and taking Odeon. In this startling collection of verse and prosery, Lennon has rolled Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and James Thurber into one great post-Joycean spitball. All those jellybean-lobbing, caterwauling Beatle fans are not going to understand...