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He restricted himself to a narrower vocabulary than in any other play except The Comedy of Errors. Everything is taut, economical, classical. Although the characters have their own individualities, they appear here in their public personae, and all adopt a nearly uniform neutral kind of classical forensic diction. Cicero himself...
The supporting roles are strong. Chris Baker plays the chorus leader with rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas...
But Berryman gets away with rhetorical excesses that would be preposterous in any other modern poet. Why? For one thing, the fact that Bradstreet is a long poem checkmates most of the poetics we have carefully engineered to deal with short lyric poems. Rhetoric is permissable when you're speaking...
Neustadt completed "Organizing the Transition" by September 15. Three days later Jackson took him out to Georgetown to meet Kennedy. Kennedy, sitting in his garden, flipped through the twenty pages of the memorandum in his usual manner. He liked it at once, and it is easy to see why. The...
Virile Poses. He quickly found that his ability to influence events was marginal, at most. During Cabinet Room meetings on the Bay of Pigs, he never voiced his doubts, fearful that he might be branded "a nuisance." "It is one thing for a Special Assistant to talk frankly in private...