Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing gossamer here...
...Lower Common Room of the Union will be used as the auditorium, with a platform stage constructed especially for this production...
...does not require the players to convey the music of poetic lines--an area in which the company as a whole is weak. This is not to say that the writing in the play lacks interest; far from it. The text is a rich mine of various kinds of lower-class Elizabethan speech, including laughable treatments of French and Welsh dialects. It is filled with captivating puns, doubles ententes, and novel images; and it constitutes a veritable dictionary of original invectives, insults, and expletives...
Royal Fending. With Prime Minister and Mrs. John Diefenbaker and a party of other notables from Ottawa and Washington,* Ike and Mamie joined their hosts aboard the blue-hulled yacht Britannia for a 31-mile, five-hour cruise through the lower channels and first three locks of the seaway-which have actually been in use for nine weeks (TIME...
...Heat always naturally flows from higher to lower temperatures, never the reverse...