Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a striking display of the inspiration and technical mastery that sets Chekhov far above most of his countless imitators. The subtlety, the probing insight into character, the sensitive, tragic spirit that is touched by moments of bright comedy--create a situation drama that is quiet, intense, and marvelously touching. And because Vanya is so personal and muted, and its action so internal, the play is exactly suited to the type of production it receives from Adams House...
...hands, could not quite create a convincing aged man. The contrast to the rather pale followers who inevitably surrounded him made his polished performance slightly too heavy for the play, although he succeeded completely in any comic passages. Mij Gohr, playing his wife, was sensitive and graceful, giving a quiet impression of sensitive acting; she was also, however, a bit frozen. As Sonia, Charlotte Clark looked believable, but stood rather rigidly, often in awkward closeness to others on stage. Her face occasionally wandered far out of her role, and she was only at moments able to bring the partial vitality...
...Quiet rebellion flared again at M.I.T. last night, as all but five residents of Baker House boycotted the evening meal for the second time in a week. The students there had boycotted last Friday night's meal of liver and fish in protest against the poor food served in the dining hall...
...feature is The Quiet...
...almost complete, has been accomplished with little discomfort: "She is lying relaxed on her right side, as she has been taught." The sound of the patient's deep and rapid breathing signals the onset of each new contraction; they are now coming three minutes apart. In a quiet moment, a microphone attached to the doctor's stethoscope picks up the fetal heartbeat, amplified to thunderous volume. "That's fine," he remarks. "One hundred forty-five and going strong." Between contractions, Mrs. Usill complains of hunger. "I could do with some honey," she says, and it is brought...