Word: misereant
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...from the Miser. Son of an auto polisher in an Omaha used-car lot, Halfback Sayers set a Big Eight rushing record by gaining 2,675 yds. in three years at the University of Kansas. Chicago Coach George Halas, a notorious miser, wanted him so badly that he laid out $150,000 to sign him for the Bears...
...this collection of short novels and stories. Anthea Mortlock seeks herself despite her grotesquely snobbish mother, who wants her "in society." Anthea finds brief ecstasy in a scramble on the sand with a local rebel. But he indifferently leaves town, and she relapses into marriage to a rich miser of the affections. Her husband is mercifully killed in an automobile accident, and she is left the money to wander the world, a rich exile with her looking glass for judge...
...spoken "Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven." By insisting on being cool and levelheaded, Grizzard removes the nervous system of the play; by insisting that Hamlet be normal, he makes he one demand that the most complex character in English drama cannot meet. The Miser, by Molière, the Guthne troupe's second offering, almost visibly chased away the lingering ghost of a sad Hamlet. Director Douglas Campbell has made a stylized harlequinade of Molière's comedy of avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats...
...Bruce Prochnik's Oliver is singularly unaffecting, but Clive Revill's Fagin glints with eccentricity. This Fagin is not very Jewish (he has been viewed without alarm by representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith), but he is a strangely epicene miser whose furtive batlike swoopings on his treasure box and triple-tempo fingering of his baubles provide comic delight...
None of the secondary parts require such virtuosity, but each of the minor actors has his own excellence. Jacques Charon, as a dim-witted, oafish servant manages to steal a scene even from Hirsch; Michel Aumont, an old miser, and Rene Camoin, an old wheezer, are unsurpassable; Micheline Boudet, believed to be an Egyptian gypsy (but in reality a long lost daughter of the old wheezer) has one scene all to herself, a scene which slowly and carefully raises the level of the audience's laughter from smiles to belly-laughs, one of the greatest scenes in the play...