Word: magnus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, The Apple Cart is a treatise on the impossibility of any kind of government. Democracy, autocracy, and monarchy are all making the best of a bad situation, and none of them is doing very well. Shaw is no anarchist; he simply wants us to recognize, as King Magnus does, the invisible shackles that trip government and turn it into a farce...
...Magnus, the imaginary English king who tries to beat the democrats at their own game, is the character who teaches Shaw's lesson, and Kenneth Tigar makes a fine instructor. Tigar's Magnus flatters, cajoles, and bullies his barnyards of ministers and then, like an ironic lemur, sits back to watch them do just what he intended all along. Tigar knows how to get the most out of Shaw's wit--he is quick enough to maintain a rapid exchange, yet patient enough to let the lines do the job by themselves when the situation calls...
...help, chiefly from the women. Like many of Shaw's women, the two female cabinet members--Amy Sue Allen and Phyllis Ward--are clearer thinkers than the men. Miss Allen, as the strait-laced Lysistrata, and Miss Ward, the giggly Amanda, are both very good. And Norma Levin, as Magnus' grand mistress Orinthia, plays her scene with Tigar magnificently...
...FISH CAN SING by Halldor Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson. 286 pages. Crowe...
DEAR JOHN. Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren studies the sexcapade of a lusty sailor (Jarl Kulle) and a winsome waitress (Christina Schollin) who discover that a weekend abed can sometimes lead to love...