Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PUSHKIN, by David Magarshack. In a solid, if sometimes pedestrian biography, the poet who was a founding father of Russian literature often seems more like a rakehell uncle...
...they also welcome flamboyant gestures. "Adam Clayton Powell is the vicar for the man who always wants to spit in Mr. Charlie's face," says John Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "They love him for that, but they don't expect him to do anything solid...
Because of all Lear's hang-ups, he could be called a truly modern figure for his sense of the precarious and tragic in human life. His nonsense verses, always catchy, should acquire renewed relevance today. They were the obverse of the solid moral copper coins given to good little Victorian children by the avuncular Establishment. His characters, like the "Old Person of Cadiz" or "Young Lady of Clare," are rarely righteous, and when they do practice virtue, it often goes refreshingly unrewarded. One thing this age will never really understand about Lear: his penchant for the nonporno limerick...
Hadrian VII--Alec McCowen's performance as a neurotic-intellectual-homosexual who dreams he becomes Pope is every bit as great as everyone says it is. Peter Luke's script is solid, entertaining, and happily devoid of philosophical pretentiousness. At the HELEN HAYES, W. 46th...