Word: multiform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncut Hamlet, Margaret Webster's fine direction gives life and movement to a congested, multiform play. If the production has faults, they spring from excess of theatricality, not from taking Shakespeare too reverently. As Falstaff, Actor Evans has gusto and wit, though not quite enough of the knight's profound worldliness. And-perhaps surprisingly-he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane...
...workmen last week finished turning a former corset factory into a new and larger "Black Glass House"* in the great industrial city of Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Costing just under $1,000,000, the new Manchester plant will continue to turn out at least ten of the multiform editions of the Express, which is printed simultaneously in three cities (London, Manchester, Glasgow) so it can arrive in every corner of the British Isles along with its readers' breakfast muffins...
...Webbs do not like the term dictatorship as applied to Russia, consider the Soviet Government less autocratic than many a parliamentary cabinet. As indications that Russia is actually a "multiform democracy" they cite the widespread popular discussion of proposed laws. The marriage law of 1927 was thus argued over for a year before adoption; the 'liquidation of the kulaks" for more than two. To the reader's astonished question: Is Stalin, then, not a dictator? the Webbs return a firm No. "The Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that...