Word: millar
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...American named Adolph J. Heimbeck, who died in 1958, cut off his two sisters because "they revere Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the taxes caused by him more than equalled their share." A 73-year-old bachelor attorney, Charles Millar, capriciously started what Canadians still refer to as the "Baby Derby" by bequeathing $568,106 "to the Mother who [in the ten years after his death] has given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children." The ensuing fertility race shocked the nation, but on May 30, 1938, the prize was duly divided among four winners who had tied with...
...Affair is an affair of justice, treated with a Galsworthy-like concern for the niceties of fair play. Judiciously adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, the play relies on tension rather than passion, and its evocation of an English university milieu is donnish, literate and civilized...
...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...
...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...
...Finally, Millar has misconstrued most of Snow's characters. Lewis Eliot, whom Millar has, for some reason, knighted, has become some sort of a passive Eric Portman figure, and no longer imposes any recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their...