Word: mutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost little of its tenuous, dreamlike quality. As a homely, stammering drudge who is trying to reclaim her no-account husband just out of jail, Actress Stanley gave a sunlit performance. Like a hand picking up broken glass, she limned her character with tentative little twitches, awkward hesitations and mute expectancy. For TV's dramatic ladies, the unhappy score at the end of their week was only one little-noticed hit and four glaring errors...
Himself Yorkshire-born. Hubert Nicholson, 49. is the first novelist in years to give tragic stature to the mute inglorious farmer. He uses the pungent local dialect tellingly but never unintelligibly. Above all, he has created one of those rare images of an ardent, convention-defying love in which the lovers do not "know what or care where or ask why''-but the reader page-hungrily does...
...Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word, another youngster who drops mute and frozen to the earth at the merest drone of an approaching plane...
...story which the opera tells so effectively concerns a fake spiritualist, her young daughter, and a mute boy who acts as their helper in the phony seances. During one such session, the medium discovers to her horror that she does indeed possess supernatural powers. But since she is unable to face the fact she fixes on the boy, blames him for tricking her, and drives him away. He, however, returns unseen, with inevitable tragic results...
...part of the mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...