Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard...
...with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences: "And on the luster of the great calm waters, the Judea glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapors...
...that the old themes are entirely absent-but they must be read between the lines. Hypotenuse in Playwright Greene's triangle is stolid, sluggish Dentist Victor Rhodes (Sir Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly...
...acknowledged leader in the inboard field (its sales are more than three times those of Owens, its closest competitor), the boom is big enough for all. Owens sold $12 million worth of boats last year v. $1 million in 1953. Such companies as Matthews, Wheeler and Richardson, who specialize in custom-quality boats, have shared handsomely in the general boom...
Probably seeded too low at number seven, Bowditch, a sophomore, beat some of the best men in the tournament on the way to his victory. Particularly impressive were his wins over Tom Richardson of Amherst and Tom Freiberg of Yale; both men are experienced seniors and former finalists in this tournament. In the final, Bowditch beat unseeded Clyde Buck of Williams, who had earlier upset Weld and Raul Karman of M.I.T. Weld, Vinton and Wood all reached the round of sixteen before bowing...