Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson in Etiquette. The Polish tour ended without any serious mishap for Khrushchev, but nonetheless, as the New York Times Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal reported, "Khrushchev usually got ten seconds of applause in exchange for about fifty minutes of speech...
Then, having read the world a lesson in the kind of etiquette he expected on international visits, Nikita Khrushchev flew back to Moscow to play host, in his own inimitable fashion, to Vice President Nixon...
...first production of the season the Arena Theatre last week presented the New England premiere of two plays by Eugene Ionesco, The Lesson and Jack, or the Submission. Ionesco's major thesis is that people simply are incapable of communication through the medium of language. Words are not understood, or have different meanings to different people. The tragedy of Ionesco's world is that people think words have meaning, try to use them to communicate and, hence, fail completely to know anything or anyone. The language of this world is the cliche and the pun. The normal reply...
...Lesson deals with a professor who has the unfortunate habit of murdering his pupils. He requires truly virtuoso acting, and Frank Langella just wasn't quite up to it. The professor is required to grow continuously more irritated, and concurrently more forceful, throughout the play. Ideally the process should be completely smooth but Mr. Langella crammed almost all of the change into one instant. As the pupil, Myra Mailloux handled the contrasting decline of her socialite poise with greater smoothness. Alice Lindbergh as the maid who has seen this happen 40 times was good...
...ending of The Lesson contains one of the great stage directions of all time: The professor "finds a big knife, invisible or real according to the preference of the director." Director Bernard Shaktman took the invisible knife, but that still did not justify the professor's leaning...