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Kennedy indeed saw himself and his office in princely Shakespearean verse. The prose of attendant-lord Schlesinger does him no disservice...
...basic complaint against opera is that it does not reflect reality, that "people do not converse in such a way"-that in real life, people do not sing. As a matter of fact, they sing more often than they recite Shakespearean verse or the kind of phony political speeches with which they harangue each other in the supposedly real theater of Arthur Miller. Of course people do not speak in asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble...
...oldest car for its infield entrance. Jim Nabors, trained as an operatic baritone before he took on the title role in Gomer Pyle, cost the gate an estimated 10% by trying to sing classical arias at the Shelby County (Iowa) Fair in July. And Lorne Green's Shakespearean parody of one of his own Bonanza scripts-"That which we call a Hoss by any other name would smell as sweet"-fell prairie-flat at the Illinois State Fair last month...
Vocally, Miss Dee's lack of Shakespearean experience is evident. Final phrases often fade into inaudibility, and she tends to drop final consonants in words like "mind" and "thousand." Her long concluding speech, wherein, tamed at last, she talks of wifely duty, comes out choppy, lacking shape and flow...
...people could do no less. For Sir Winston was a kingly figure, his life a glowing Shakespearean epic. He had been his nation's savior, Britain's greatest statesman, leader and inspiration of the free world. In war and diplomacy, oratory and literature, above all in his delineation of Western values, his achievements place him honorably in the company of Pericles and the elder Pitt, of Wellington and Washington...