Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of its discontent...
...look of one more mousy English country-house play, with the sound of one more reminiscent and easily resolvable tune. But it becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...
...already asked to be allowed to resign next month. To replace Ray, Castro for the first time named an open Communist, Osmani Cienfuegos, brother of missing Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who only a few weeks ago joined the Popular Socialist (Communist) Party. An obscure leftist navy captain named Roland Diaz Astarain got Pérez' post...
Second-year students are Nathan J. Cohen, George E. Cooper, Anthony A. D'Amato, Jr., Timothy D. Dyk, Peter Edelman, David Falk, Tom J. Farer, David H. Fleck, Daniel I. Halperin, Elise B. Heinz, Roland S. Homet, Jr., Jack S. Levin, Jere D. McGaffey, Bernard W. Nussbaum, and Robert M. O'Neil...
...Also, Roland A. Paul, Jr., Ancil L. Payne, Jr., Sidney S. Rosdeitcher, Kenneth Semmel, James van Roden Springer, John E. Vanderstar, Mark A. Weiss, Stephen F. Williams, and Matthew J. Zinn...