Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director mustn't show off, and embarrass his actors by getting laughs at their expense. Nothing reveals people so much as when they are trying to be something they are not. Actors have to perform a spiritual strip-tease in rehearsals, and the director should handle them on a clinical basis and with antiseptic sympathy--like a doctor with neurotic patients...
...addition she will perform in its first local presentation her own composition, Recitative and Aria, written in Paris...
...technique. She would spend two days mastering four lines. Her playing is unhurried, coolly articulated and generously ornamented, has a miraculous clarity that manages to achieve some of the harpsichord's shimmering brilliance along with the piano's plump sound. Tureck believes that it is unfair to perform Bach on the harpsichord in the concert hall. "Its place is not in the concert hall," she says. "What you hear is a click, if you hear anything...
...themselves, even at the Quare Fellow's predicament. In this way, Brendan Behan laughs at the society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly dug for the customary reward of some snout (tobacco), four prisoners perform a final act reminiscent of the division of spoils on Calvary long ago. It is the prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody...
...with imperial honors that ran all the way from a knighthood to membership in the exclusive Jockey Club, to which no Asian had ever been admitted. They were also behind his being named President of the League of Nations in 1937. Rich beyond calculating (or telling), conscientious enough to perform the duties he was born to without stinting, eager enough to seize on the privileges that were his without questioning, the Aga Khan belonged to an age that was out of step with the newer egalitarianism. Last week, by the terms of his own will, his Imamate passed...