Word: shrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishwife. Front pages ever since have attested to her tantrum power, and there have been moments when the sounds of her critics almost obscured the sound of her voice. But last week, in her first Metropolitan Opera appearance of the season, Callas the singer soared above Callas the shrew, and sang Traviata with an impassioned poignancy unmatched in years. See Music, Diva's Return...
...everything is wrong with the show. To its great credit, it presents Thelma Ritter, who plays what Time magazine would call "the great and good friend" of the barge skipper. A comedienne of absolutely the first caliber, she has brought to its ultimate perfection the characterization of the lovable shrew. Though some of her material might be funnier, her acting could scarcely be better...
Laid in 1910, The Waltz of the Toreadors tells of a retired French general chained, for all his infidelities, to the sickbed of a not-really-sick jealous shrew of a wife. He is equally chained to his high-romantic memories of a young girl he waltzed with at a ball 17 years before and who now suddenly appears on the scene. Anouilh's General St. Pe, a Don Quixote when he is not a Don Juan, needs-as he grows older-stronger and stronger rose-colored glasses, and is all the more romantic...
...modern U.S. usage a witch is either a liberal's term for the quarry of a Congressman or a ladylike term for an untamed shrew; oldtime witches seem to have disappeared. Not so in the eyes of Jungian psychologists, to many of whom the whole world of demons, myth and fable is every bit as vivid as it is to poets and children. For Jungians believe that certain kinds of myths are repeated over and over again in all eras and societies, thus furnishing clues to the universal unconscious, just as an individual's dreams may give clues...
...last week showed early foot, then fell off the pace, finally closed strong. It was away from the post with The Taming of the Shrew, a brisk Shakespearean gallop which showed Maurice Evans at the top of his form as the impetuous Petruchio. while Lilli Palmer gave smouldering life to the imperious Kate. Staged with wit and imagination by The Hit Parade's William Nichols and costumed brilliantly by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Shrew was one of the best of Maurice Evans' productions...