Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this Preface, "On the Prospects of Christianity," Shaw divides what is on his mind into some 83 short sections. He devotes a good many of these to a careful analysis and comparison of the four Gospels, showing how they give widely different pictures of Jesus' life, character, and teachings--sometimes to the point of absolute irreconcilability...
...TIME'S White House correspondent and writes a column on the presidency for LIFE. He has filed about 2,000,000 words on the career and character of L.B.J., and yet, he says, "It is impossible to find your way through the labyrinth of Johnson's mind...
...This novella, a study of a Negro girl's mind as told through her speech rhythms, appeared in 1909 and was one of the earliest and best of Gertrude Stein's countless experiments. Richard Wright called it "the first long serious treatment of Negro life in the United States...
...pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy." Respectively, Holofernes corresponds to the dottore, Armado to the capitano, Nathaniel to the pantalone and parasite, Moth (a wit) and Costard (a dimwit) to the comic servants (zanni). But it seems that Shakespeare also had in mind here poking fun at such now-forgotten men as Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Hervey, and John Florio...
...course the verse is not sacred; what is sacred is the communication of Mayer through the text through the sound and movement on his stage to the audience watching the play. What counts here is not fidelity to convention, but rightness, and the Summer Players are, to my mind, right 99 per cent of the time. When Demetrius (Vincent Canzoneri) tossed "And, by the way, let us recount our dreams" to the audience upon exiting, an audible explosion of surprised laughter and applause arose as we realized we'd never known the line could be read like that...