Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gadgets. Still, the classic garret inventor has managed to survive. Edwin Link, inventor of the famed "Link trainer" for instrument flight, has managed to move out of aviation and into oceanography, and now explores the underwater world in a clear, bubble-shaped plastic submarine of his own design. William Lear, who has invented radios, airplanes and steam-powered vehicles, is now working with a Canadian aircraft company to develop a small, quiet and highly fuel-efficient jet plane...
...Drury Lane earlier this year for ?35,000 to Playwright Richard Sheridan, 24, Garrick gave a series of farewell performances that drew crowds from as far away as France. He chose eleven roles calculated to display his unique range and the naturalistic style he pioneered, including adaptations of Lear and Hamlet. "The Garrick" had wanted to appear last of all in his greatest creation, the engagingly villainous Richard III, but his health was not up to it. Said he: "I dread the fight and the fall; I am in agonies afterward." Instead, he appeared in Mrs. Susannah Centlivre...
...tide is turning. A decade ago A.D. Nuttall kicked off his intriguing book on the play thus: "The Winter's Tale is the most beautiful play Shakespeare ever wrote. It is a less intelligent play than Hamlet (but not much less intelligent). It is less profound than King Lear (but not much less)." And Fitzroy Pyle's more recent volume on the work should further the appreciation of its stature and consummate artistry...
...trouble with The Hero is that it has so little going for it, not even a ma ture satirical point of view. It is the kind of morality fable that a Thurber might have conceived. Menotti has dealt with it as though he were writing for Nor man Lear...
...easily imagine him as the intellectually introspective and acerbic philosopher king of Pirandello's Henry IV. And he could be a storm to measure storms by on the fate-blasted heath of King Lear...