Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other performances were only slightly less galvanizing. Leland Moss played the queer brother with restraint, wisely letting the text, not phony mannerisms, establish that the characer was a homosexual. An outlandish swish would have been out of balance with the other performances, all on the quiet side, but Moss might have been a bit more peevish and shrill in his woman-hating moments. Kenneth McBain gave a controlled and droll performance as Mr. Sloane, not perhaps as sinister as he should be, but always the master of his accent and his deadpan. The four actors were acting well together...
...Quiet Revolution
...Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form, demanding better schools and opportunity to share equally in the country's growth. In the early 1960's French separatism, including cells of bearded conspiratorial terrorists, was a major threat to Canada's very fabric as a nation. There...
...decision to use projections is wise, for nothing is more impossible than creating a believable magic forest from paper and paint. John Halvorson's slides and the green and blue light scheme ordained by Alan Symonds worked well enough when the stage was quiet and the poetry delivered with reasonable facility...
...oarsmen, the Sprints are not just a one-afternoon affair. For them, it all begins with a bus ride to Worcester Friday. That late afternoon they will practice on the lake for the first time. The practice is quiet and intense--the lake is silent and without spectators. After practice the crew eats dinner at a Howard Johnson's, then finds a motel to sleep in. There while the crew tries to rest for Saturday the coaches and coxes for all the boats competing in the sprints assemble to iron out the technical details of the meet, preparing for Saturday...