Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...range and excellence of our programs," says he Indeed, though many have dated call it "Camp Harvard," the summer school crusaders generally take themselves quite seriously. "A truly cosmopolitan center of learning during the summer months in Cambridge" assets Pihl. This bold, declarative style sometimes verging on the pompous characterize the entire work...
Director Robert Whitehead, who produced Medea in 1947, has not fired up other key actors. Paul Sparer's Creon is more like a pompous chairman of the board than a Corinthian king, and Ryan's Jason is a callow marital climber rather than the hero who brought home the Golden Fleece. The Grecian temple designed by Ben Edwards has a brooding, darksome majesty. A pity so much of this production lacks...
Harvard colleague Parker puts it another way: "Legal academia is as pompous a sector of academia as any, full of hot air and gas. Ely has none of that...It'd be very refreshing to be at a school with him as dean," He adds. "He has certainly got the energy to build a law school like Stanford into one of the two or three best...
Reese is on the court playing herky-jerky, uninspiring squash against a freshman with a slightly pompous manner and the thoroughly aristocratic name of Julian Benello. Our hero hits one good shot, only to follow it with three despicable plays and a good deal of shuffling around the court and mumbling. Benello wins the first game...