Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evaluating these professionals in personal terms develop Seldes' strong emphasis on the integral role love plays in acting...
Small wonder, then, that The Bright Lights has no real bitterness, only an occasionally wistful--but unswerving--dedication to a capricious craft. In the chapter describing her role in Equus, she comments, "Chekhow has Nina say 'It seems to me a play must have some love in it.' So should a book that deals with the life of a play." And so does this book that deals with the life of many plays--and that of this actress as well...
...white hair, a fluffy white moustache, and a high, whiny, sing-song jewish voice, Olivier moves through the movie like a haunted little ham, carrying the weight of the Holocaust on his feeble shoulders. The character pushes himself--the way Olivier must have pushed himself to do this role while in and out of the hospital for heart surgery--and suddenly he'll erupt with a screech so charged that this comatose movie wakes up and shakes itself...
...first 30 years really didn't amount to much," says Allison. Only during the war did it become "the preeminent institution in professional training for managers and business that it has become." The question is whether or not a school of government can come to play an analogous role...
...Kennedy School is aspiring to play the role of industry leader to other public policy programs. "The curriculum and the conception that underlies the program" will be, if not copied, "borrowed from liberally," Bok says...