Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area" and has brought considerable pressure on non-Communist repressive regimes in South Korea, Iran and Chile. But Moscow has seen itself as the main target. Indeed, Carter's most stirring statements and dramatic moves have involved Soviet dissidents. Shortly after taking office, the President sent a letter to Nuclear Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the U.S.S.R.'s most prominent dissident, and pledged to use the U.S.'s "good offices to seek the release of prisoners of conscience." An enraged Brezhnev warned Carter not to "interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union ... A normal development of relations...
This spring, the alumnus learned that Mrs. Butterfield had taken ill just after she retired from Harvard. He wrote her a letter, in which he reminded her of a promise made years before. Would he be able to do his profile...
Twelfth Night drew on a number of common devices of the time. Indeed Shakespeare himself had made use of mistaken twins, a wooer by proxy in disguise, and a crucial letter and ring in his much earlier Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona. What sets Twelfth Night above its immediate and more remote predecessors is its great skill in combining three plots, its masterly preparation for peak scenes, its more subtle and less garish character painting, the richness of thematic overtones and undertones, and the substantial integration of sung music into its spoken music...
Dishy seems not to have the remotest experience with Shakespearean speech. Again and again his intonation rings false. Director Freedman is partly to blame, too, for instructing or allowing Dishy to drag everything in the classic Letter Scene beyond endurance. At first Dishy practices poses and gestures at great length. When he discovers the forged love note, he milks its contents interminably, sketching the enigmatic capital letters in the air and mouthing them repeatedly ad nauseam. And his labored attempts to achieve a smile should have stayed in vaudeville. Like Falstaff in Henry IV, Malvolio hasn't learned a thing...
...trying to suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...