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...with story line, anyway; he was more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well he just snapped up a Boccaccio tale from a secondary source, complete with the trite gimmick of identification of rings. But he failed to expend the necessary effort on characteriaztion as well. Pascal once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree, or he has no meaning at all." This play contains such passages. For example, the first two acts make real sense only if one assumes a homosexual relationship between Bertram and Parolles; yet the last half...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Among Behrman's great circle of literary and artistic friends were Gabriel Pascal, Somerset Maugham and Sir Max Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Anecdotal Playwright | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

Varsity number one sabreman Manny Cabral will have a tough match today against Mike DeSano, N.Y.U.'s Eastern Collegiate Champion. Also favored in the sabre matches is co-captain Christian Pascal of N.Y.U. In the epee matches the varsity is hardly strong enough to be rated a favorite over the trio from N.Y.U...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers to Meet Top-rated N.Y.U. | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

...Pascal: Pensées (circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry & Being | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than there, now rather than then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry & Being | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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