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Aside from purely physical difficulties, the Leverett Dramatic Society had of Tamburlaine himself. Edward Alleyne is dead, and neither Edward Maguire nor anybody else today is equipped to rant that cosmic role. Even by 1600 it had become passe to split the ears of the groundlings, and we who are the heirs of the methods can provide Marlowe neither with actors nor audience ready to accept him on his own terms. Still, Maguire's martial bearing and lush voice mask his inadequacies well enough to let the play move ahead without much tedium. Maguire never plumbs any of Tamburlaine...
...million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand of socialism to his followers; $500,000 for Nkrumah's luxury palace near Aburi...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
Furthermore, men do almost all the talking. And Shakespeare has let them harangue at high pitch and at great length. They rant and sermonize; they like to say things twice, and to explore abstractions. Shakespeare also overloads their speech with lots of heavy Latinate words and forms that he never uses anywhere again: orgulous, corresponsive, conflux, tortive, insisture, oppugnancy, propugnation, assubjugate, unplausive, rejoindure, embrasures, commixtion, deceptious, constringed, concupy...
...been D'Annunzio's rant and rave that prepared the way for Mussolini. But after he took power in 1922. the warrior poet lived out his life as the chief object of interest in a museum full of works of art. historic relics and junk. He died in 1938. not long before World War II brought Italy "the fountains of blood and tears" the poet had promised, and history made its final savage exegesis of his life-work-the butchered bodies of Mussolini and his mistress strung up by the heels...