Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vocally, however, she is not strong enough--the same fault she showed here a decade ago when trying the not unsimilar part of Goneril in King Lear. In talking of the murder plot, when Macbeth asks, "If we should fail?," her reply--"We fail?"--lacks the foreceful scorn, the reassuring incredulity needed to prop his weakening resolve. A sensual Lady Macbeth is perfectly valid, but the role requires a decided steak of masculinity, such as captured so imposingly in the portrayals of Dame Judith Anderson, Mrs. Tore Segelcke, and Siobhan McKenna...
...local draft board, channeled Brown's surrogate son into the swamps of Southeast Asia. Ubiquitous television sets keep vigil over three astronauts lost on a return flight from the moon. Murder in his mind, anguish in his heart, Brown must pace through his daily routine while mutely suffering Lear's rage at the fly that outlives Cordelia...
...shareholder in LEAR SIEGLER (150,000 shares) is sponsoring an antiwar resolution, but the New American Movement is interested in the company anyway. At an open ACSR hearing a few weeks ago, NAM members raised the issue of Lear Siegler's training pilots and supplying equipment to South Vietnam, citing Boston Globe reports of skyrocketing numbers of American civilians in the country as evidence that such corporate involvement not only helped kill people but also risked a recommitment of American troops...
Farber said he believes that this Fall the committee might look into government contracts signed with Lear Siegler, Inc., an issue recently raised at Harvard by the New American Movement...
...lawyer who practices estate law needs to know the latest tax decisions, but he will only serve his client adequately if he also knows about King Lear. When a lawyer advises a client to give part of his property to his children, the lawyer needs to temper his knowledge of the tax advantages of such a transfer with knowledge of how children behave towards parents from whom they have nothing more to expect materially. I suspect that a reading of Dickens' Bleak House will teach a lawyer more about the pitfalls of complicated trusts than an advanced seminar...