Word: manganous
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...seems confusing because we have the federal government saying one thing, and the state government saying another," Bill Mangan '66, a house-master at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said yesterday...
...Mangan said the law could divide students...
Richard John's performance as Boss Mangan does not evince the "rugged strength" expected of a man whose single-minded business interests threaten to overthrow the existing social order. John instead portrays the kind of character who was kicked around during kindergarten and is only now getting his revenge on humanity. His frenzied, whining manner accords--often hysterically--the Mangan who cannot keep pace with Heartbreak House's ever-changing pretensions. But because his malice barely emerges, John's performance can perhaps best be defined as comic basrelief. Similarly, Peter Ginna is almost endearing as the burglar who not only...
Jennifer Notking convincingly portrays Ellie Dunn's emergence from a shy, naive girl into a coy and sophisticated woman who then recants her decision to marry Mangan solely for his money. Instead, she falls for the 88-year-old Shotover, displaying an unexpected maturity and the mysterious allure of a siren...
...adequately to evoke a single, focused personality. While Anne Ames tends to overdo her portrayal of the salacious socialite Lady Utterword, she successfully represents the haughty conservatism of the old English upper class. Doug Kruse's Mazzini Dunn evinces the innocence and naivete of a man taken in by Mangan but fails to provide the minimal amount of dynamism necessary to cast him as the idealistic political orator for the revolutionary movement...