Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of sophomores Chris Mayer d John Duer, fill the bottom of the Tiger lineup, and they'll have their hands full trying to shake Harvard's Matt Hall and Gordon Black...
...Mayer saw the chance decisions as the work of a supernatural providence. Ariel is present at both scenes; he inspires Prospero's mercy and, as Mayer staged it, he fixes the old crown of Milan on Prospero's head...
...Mayer's interpretation of Prospero's decisions to forgive his enemies and to change his magic for his ducal staff is particularly surprising in view of the care with which he has Prospero plan the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda. Seltzer's hidden joy--"It works"--and pretended severity as the couple provide some of the nicest touches in his characterization of the wise old mage. It is hard to believe Prospero could be so happily engineering a dynastic marriage, while plotting the permanent destruction of the head of the opposite house...
Within the interpretation Mayer provided for him, Seltzer created an utterly engaging Prospero. His anger, his twinkle, his thunder, his weariness, all were part of the same man--a man I've never met anywhere, but one I'd like to know...
Peter Weil's Caliban was less lusty than I'd have made him, but that's Mayer's doing. Weil makes an intriguing connection between this and spiritual impotence. Particularly in his "'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-caliban" song when Caliban stretches his lungs and brain to their breaking point and makes nothing but noise, he expresses the limits of his subhuman character...