Word: misogynistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is still pretty funny-the tale of a misogynist farmer who keeps trying to get rid of a rich Athenian lad in love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author...
Holy Cross. It took gruff, brilliant Misogynist Sill 34 years to consent to Kent's first dance. At another dance, Father Sill himself played the fiddle-interrupting himself periodically to give overexuberant couples a smart rap with...
...Misogynist? In Milwaukee, County Auditor Robert Boos submitted the annual report of the annuity and pension board, commented, "There were fewer deaths among women service pensioners than expected. In other respects, however, the experience was favorable...
Alfred Drake is first-rate as the unsuccessful misogynist Benedick. He is as adept a comedian as he is an Iago. His diction and timing are exemplary, and he is a master of the nuanced inflection. Much of his Shakespearean prowess is, I think, the result of his being an excellent musician...
...trenchcoat, seemed perfectly cut out to play the sleek female assassin, and only Jordan Jelks, as the urbane Mr. Price, failed to enter the whacky spirit of the occasion. Mare Bragnoni, on the other hand, gave the best performance of all as the male assassin a lisping, bumbling misogynist who dispatches women for purely "humanitarian" reason...