Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nicholas Thompson, who directed the production, has much to learn. Nothing happened. What appeared on stage was a mere walking around of John Ford's lines. Passionate speeches were declaimed with restraint, and the speaker usually appeared to forget what he had just said, if he had even listened to himself at all. No one dared to be physical at all; people in the throes of fury or love kept their incongruous intellectual distances as they hurled power at each other only in their words. Excited Italians looking for a murderer cried, "Follow! Follow!" and slowly walked of stage...
...World. For once, Joe Kennedy underestimated himself: he and Rose had a mere nine children-but Joe's fortune is reckoned at more than $200 million. He became general manager of the huge Fore River shipbuilding yard at Quincy during World War I, joined the investment banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., sold short and made $15 million in a few hours during the market crash of 1929, served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-35) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937)-and was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the ominous years...
...Kennedy campaign trail," says a friend, "was littered with used razor blades"). And on the night of June 18, 1946, old Honey Fitz climbed onto a table to sing Sweet Adeline in celebration of his grandson's primary victory over eight other Democrats. The general election was a mere formality: Republicans do not get elected in the Eleventh District...
...Gein as the victim of a common conflict: while consciously he loved his mother and hated other women, unconsciously he had hated her and loved others. She had subjected him to deep frustration. Also, his development had somehow been arrested so that he continued, childlike, to perceive people as mere objects. As a young man, Eddie Gein had tittered over the family's medical guide with its revealing anatomical drawings and its front-cover injunction: "You can do nothing to bring the dead to life, but you can do much to save the living from death." For Gein...
Margaret emerges no mere victim, no strong woman exacerbated by a weak husband and a hard fate. Hers is a willful, self-righteous strength gloating over weakness in others; hers is a puritan nature full of repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something...