Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moods, a play such as "You and I" must come as a welcome relief. For here Mr. Barry has given to us not a comedy which ever and anon lapses into farce, but a true comedy of character. With the sure touch of the artist, and with rare humour, the author has revealed to us a portion of the life of the people around us, and it is pleasant to leave his play, and, going into the world outside, to find there men and women with hopes, ambitions and failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties...
...read a comedy so thoroughly well characterized, so technically good, and containing such brilliant dialogue is, indeed, a rare treat...
...Significance. The Puppet Master is that rare thing, a fantasy without a trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism...
...miners used used a cave in the cliff for a battery room and for a bomb proof shelter during the blasts. the specimens that are now being arranged for exhibition are largely specimens of feldspar quartz and spodumene. A number of specimens of pink afatite, a rare formation of granite, were found...
...bottle-nosed whale is a very rare specie found in Arctic waters. It derives its name from its very large beaked head resembling the nose of a bottle...