Word: prospero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROME--Police yesterday apprehended Prospero Gallinari, a founder of the Red Brigades and the alleged organizer of the abduction and kiling of former Premier Aldo Moro...
Rosovsky's right-hand man--Ariel to his Prospero, to cast them benignly--is John B. FoxJr. '59, dean of Harvard College. It's Fox's job to implement Faculty policies in the College; since a stir over his housing plan three years ago, he's managed to do so while keeping a pretty low profile among students--despite his 6 ft. 8 in. height. Fox is the final arbiter of policies affecting undergraduate life--everything from how expensive your breakfast is to how spacious your suite is. Fox also wears another hat as chairman of the Administrative Board. Harvard...
...Prospero, so often described as omniscient, refers to Caliban as a creature "on whose nature nurture can never stick." But he is quite wrong. In the dozen years Prospero and his daughter have lived on the island, Caliban has striven to better himself and has learned how to speak well. In the course of the play he learns valuable lessons and at the end asserts, "I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace...
Morton superbly conveys the pathos, humor, pain and joy that make up much of this remarkable character. He is a worthy successor to our century's most celebrated Caliban, the late Robert Atkins--who first played Prospero but switched to Caliban and went on doing the latter for 40 years, portraying him as the kind of New World savage that Elizabethan voyagers liked to bring home for public side-show display; and to the extraordinary hippopotamian Caliban that Earle Hyman embodied on this very stage...
...young lovers in the play pale beside their counterparts in the earlier romances. Anne Kerry's unnaturally studied elocution and rather monotonous vocal timbre do not help Miranda. As her suitor Ferdinand (whom Prospero tests in too testy a manner), Peter Webster is handsome enough and speaks acceptably, save for a couple of misplaced accents...