Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally, The Purification's copious imagery and symbolism become almost unmanageable, and its full-blown phrases tend to give the actors every appearance of being carried away by the sheer beauty of their own performances. Yet the Workshop's players skip over the more leaden passages with a minimum of difficulty. Hal scott, as the Son, is the most outstanding member of the cast, although too often he chokes dramatically at the end of climactic lines. Don Richards, as The Rancher, and Mary Anne Goldsmith, as the Indian girl Luisa, provide competent support...
...rehearsals, Marlon is said to "flob around" so indifferently that the other actors get no benefit from the reading. During a Streetcar rehearsal, Actor Karl Malden once smashed his fist into a wall in sheer frustration. Marlon refuses to change, says he has to feel himself into the part that way. Once when a woman tried to compliment him on a screen performance, Marlon broke in coldly: "You've got a run in your stocking...
...sheer physical size, Cornell outdistances any other Ivy school by almost any standard of comparison. The Ithaca campus sprawls over thousands of acres, and the University also has considerable chunks of land in Geneva, N. Y., Buffalo, and New York City, where the Medical and Nursing Schools are located...
...sheer force of character, Washington established that he, not Congress, would name his Cabinet, and that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...
Since many successful ploysmen have become absolute masters of Globemanship, it would be sheer folly for an amateur to fight them on their own terms. For this professional clan, you must adopt certain specific ploys that work to embarrass the "traveler" and make him feel guilty for his "trip." This aspect of Globemanship will be diagrammed tomorrow...