Word: predessor
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Mark Twain is not foreign to the stage. Hal Holbrook, as a predessor of Julie Harris, has been translating Twain's tall tales to a theatrical setting for years. The impact of the People's Theater of Cambridge's current production of Six Twain Tales is not then in the originality of adapting Twain but in the range of emotions the six tales explore. From the wry humor of "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" to the broad comedy "Mrs. MacWilliams and the Lightening" to the lyricism of life on the raft (before the steamboat intrudes) in that famous nineteenth chapter about...
...going to be pretty bland." The ultimate bugbear here, head tutors say, is the student with "emotional problems," whose tutor will avoid aggravating the condition by not reporting it to the next tutor. That tutor, the story goes, then needs a semester just to find out what his predessor could have passed on in one confidential memo...
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