Search Details

Word: romeos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...fully captured the humor and satire in the script, along with a substantial part of the colorful pageantry envisioned by the playwright. It was a clever idea, for example, to stage the Venetian wooing scene between Marco and Donate as a parody of the Balcony Scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Marco Millions | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

This was the new Hamlet of Franco Zeffirelli. Last year, in a choreography of flashing swords held like switchblades, the 28-year-old Italian director caused a transatlantic sensation by staging the Old Vic's final Romeo and Juliet as if it were an adaptation of West Side Story. This year, in a production that has become a Roman sellout, he has excised most of the melancholia from the melancholy Dane, replacing it with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Revised Standard Dane | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Under the baton of Dr. Henry Swoboda, the orchestra will present the first New England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO Gives Concert Tonight | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Lakewood, Ohio: Measure for Measure Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Season ends Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 16, 1963 | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...ever see. Their principal target was Rome's Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute, one of the two institutions in the world where Catholics can get a degree to teach Scripture.* In a series of finger-wagging papers, monsignori attached to Rome's Curia-principally Paolo Cecchetti, Antonino Romeo and Antonio Piolanti-began hinting that certain teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: The Catholic Scholars | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next