Word: soliloquys
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Whether the page would live up to its encouraging prospectus was for time to tell, but it got off to a brisk, bright start. Sharpened and punctuated with illustrations. Herald Tribune editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa, cudgeled Yugoslavia's Tito and the New York City board of education, ranged more or less merrily from the World Series to San Marino to Jayne Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent...
...people who are not actors and who resent acting, and with an ultra-conservative public. Also, a musical score says more about the finished product than the script of a play. Play actors have a more imaginative, personal contribution than musicians. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is actually a musical aria, but the 'score' gives only the meaning, not the melody and rhythm...
...Shakespeare," Strasberg continued, "and that he was an actor." He said the best clue to Shakespeare's ideas on acting is not to be found in Hamlet's oft-cited directions to the Players (Act iii, 2), but rather in Hamlet's 'O what a rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy (Act ii, 2), especially the lines, "Is it not monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect...
...into suspense verging on horror, and is thus the only piece which can claim to draw its reader onward. Yet it achieves this only in the narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving...
Three second prizes of $25 each went to Richard H.R. Smithies '57, who recited "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister" and "My Last Dutchess" by Robert Browning; Ralph B. Perry III '58, who presented Cicero's First Oration Against Cataline; and Donald G. Richards '56, who read "The Tombs of Westminster Abbey...