Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefit of a spirited, well-played finale. But the rest of it, and Corelli's "Christmas" Concerto, which opened the concert sounded as if the orchestra were merely going through the motions. The intonation was unaccountably bad, the playing colorless, and the ensemble work in the winds unusually slipshod. The most noticeable defect was the strings' inability to play piano with any tone at all but a rather lifeless one, lacking intensity and variety...
There must be at least half as many ways to play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gave us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this was a notable performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it was no reflection on Adrian if he could not match it. Adrian's Shylock was simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopted a faster tempo than most actors, avoiding exaggeration and the temptation to make...
...also about hate--which brings us to Shylock. There must be at least half as many ways to play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gives us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this is a distinguished performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it is no reflection on Adrian if he cannot match it. Adrian's Shylock is simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopts a faster tempo than most actors...
Dermot's moral dilemma is sharpened by the fact that his commandant has ordered an attack on a police station which may well kill innocents. The writing is no great shakes, but there is nothing slipshod about the moral crux onto which Novelist Roth has carpentered his O'Neill. A Terrible Beauty is a plain tale, honest as a pair of well-cobbled brogans. Unhappily, every now and then Roth remembers that writing about Ireland is supposed to be a bit on the poetic side, and sets up a keen about the scenery or the weather. The only...
...utterly lost on the majority of his audience." The Chicago Times, one of his angriest foes, sneered that "he cannot speak five grammatical sentences in succession." One of Lincoln's greatest speeches, the second inaugural ("with malice toward none") was dismissed by the Times as "slipshod" and "puerile...