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Malvolio is the primmest of puritans. He preens before the mirror of his self-approbation. "Holier than thou" drips from every syllable he speaks. He is thus terribly gullible when a trumped-up letter purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous...
Into an elegant manse atop the white cliffs of England's south coast ventures Deborah Kerr, beautifully coiffed and dressed for a royal weekend, doing her primmest impersonation of a gentlewoman fallen upon difficult days. Indeed, no one would suspect that she is a convicted murderess but recently released from prison. So Dame Edith Evans hires Deborah to tend her garden -where nothing grows-and to keep an eye on Granddaughter Hayley Mills...
Some weeks ago, on a cold, wintry day, assuming her primmest pose, she proposed that all boys in the college write theses in all large courses, because the professors could not get in close contact with their mentalities through quizzes and examinations. Of course, acting from an altruistic impulse; she overlooked the facts that the majority of large courses are elementary and of a survey nature, inadequate for research; that such theses would have to be written mainly during the reading period, when boys should "browse" and no more; that there are enough requirements of written material...
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