Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center." After a few minutes, "If you are at your center, and you want to make a noise, please make one." Grunts and hisses and groans, from all the centers of all the bodies, And when the noises stopped, Cooper would say, "Now slowly begin to think about your role. Let your role gradually descent into, your center." A few minutes later, the actors would begin their regular rehearsal...
...extent that an actor succeeds in feeling like his stage role, he will be convincing on stage. What Cooper has tried to do with his cast in The Bonds of Interest is to get them into character not only through the mind--but through the "center" as well. If an actor can find his center and then make his stage role part of that center, uniting the literary creation with his own gut, he can actually become the character he is trying to create. For the few hours of the play, the transformation will be real. Acting will...
This prospect does not worry Cooper as much as it might some other directors. For one thing, as he admits, the plot of The Bonds of Interest could be swamped with little loss to anyone. (It is about two companions who arrive at a town. One assumes the role of a nobleman, the other his crafty servant, and so on.) For another, he is not terribly worried about putting on a technically polished production of the play. "After all," he explains, "we are a group of amateurs. There's something a little pretentious about our trying to present a very...
...greatest ski team in Harvard history must accept the role of giant-killer next week at the NCAA Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
Therefore, we petition the Committee on Educational Policy to recommend to the Faculty that the grading requirement be removed from our course. Further, we ask for a public hearing with the C.E.P. concerning our petition and the general role of grades at Harvard. We would like to raise at the point the arguments for the complete elimination of grades from the Harvard educational process...