Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here is the core of a truly superb Shakespearean repertory company. I am not unaware of the Shakespearean achievements at the Antioch Festival in Ohio and elsewhere, but the sun is shining most brightly over Stratford, Connecticut. If great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well...
Jerome Kilty has done it again. The Group 20 director seems to thrive on challenges and obstacles, for once more he has taken a thorny classic and turned it into a viable and engrossing theatrical experience. The Merchant of Venice is a good play; but Kilty has made it seem like a great play, and this is no mean feat. One forgets that the play is poorly constructed and rather liberally endowed with passages where Shakespeare definitely nodded...
...televised blurbs, so understated at first that it was sometimes hard to tell what was being advertised, are now couched largely in such hard-sell terms that they seem downright un-British. But there is still an undertone of restraint; e.g., amidst a bunch of filmed interviews with housewives who swear by a detergent called Omo, the British admen have included one housewife who candidly states that she does not use Omo, has no intention of ever trying it. Makes it seem more authentic, they explain...
...more walks filled the bases, and a moment later the crowd roared with delight as Farrell wildpitched the winning run home to give the Giants a three-game sweep of the series. "How's that for a way to win a game?" crowed Manager Bill Rigney. "We seem to find a new way every...
...Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that the world will not end 'with a bang but a whimper...