Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TERMS, which are admittedly peculiar, and in its own way, which is often exasperating, "The Empire Builders" is a fascinating drama in the Absurd tradition: which means that it mingles farce and tragedy, fantasy and reality, in a dramaturgic jumble; that its people are fools, doomed to play clown roles in the face of impending disaster; that it is myterious, mystifying, enignatic, foolish, funny--all at the same time...
...peculiar structure (extraordinarily choppy scenes, long narrative passages) of this weak adaption suggests it is faithful to its source--no doubt too faithful. When a play tries hard to resemble a book, both play and book are bound to suffer...
While Harvard has cornered a great deal of the market in terms of qualified academic professionals, it still has a long way to be before its faculty may be considered Olympian. Harvard's standards like those of many other schools are unique and peculiar unto themselves; the fact that men make standards does not necessarily imply that they are lived up to here any more than they are anyplace else. What of the Kenneth Clarke's, John Hope Franklin's, Ralph Bunche's and James Farmer's? And before them, the E. Franklin Frazier's, Sterling Brown's and Horace...
This technique of direction, however, requires incredibly strong acting to keep the styles and their effects distinct. The principal problems of the Agassiz Cherry Orchard are the disturbing inconsistencies of characterization as actors fail to exploit the peculiar logic of their styles in moments of crisis and dip into the grab bag of general histrionics to carry them through. After Ken Tigar recovered from some painful timing slips in the first act he gave a striking portrayal of a serf turned manager. His nagging, casually enunciated, and loud voice move against the general strength of Marilyn Pitzele's Ranevskaya...
...teaching at Shaw is a peculiar combination of old-fashioned educational philosophy and experimental new methods. Miss Watson, the formidable head of the English department, stubbornly defends her course in transformational grammar (a type of semantic analysis used in computer science). The subject baffles other members of the department, and gives considerable trouble to students who cannot yet distinguish between adjectives and verbs. But no one graduates who has not passed the course. Many students are taking it the second and third time; the failure rate is high even for Shaw...