Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly acclaimed Hamlet, he will be the Othello at next summer's American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut). Mantan Moreland (Gogo), to get a laugh, pulled the Bert Lahr trick of quipping, "I speak my lines, but I don't know what I'm saying." But just as Lahr in private has clear ideas about the play's meaning, I am sure Mr. Moreland does...
...avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust, and the Marquis crumpled, his throat cut. He cried out his confession and then, unable to speak more, dipped a hand in his own blood and traced a great cross on the floor ..." A contemporary chronicler wrote: "Afterward he was poorly buried. All his grandeur and all his riches vanished, and the means could not be found to pay for candles at his burial...
...first day of 1957, the Saar-that densely populated, industrially rich, and much fought over 898-sq.-mi. territory on the Franco-German border-became the tenth state in the Federal Republic of West Germany. The Saar's people speak German; its ground is heavy with coal needed by the French. The governments of West Germany and France, hoping "to settle the Saar question in such a way that it will no longer be an issue," agreed on political integration into Germany now, economic integration in three years (economically, the Saarlanders profited more under the French welfare state, with...
...Shakespeare's play, it unifies it better than Shakespeare did. Some of Guthrie's inventions, rather than useful tools, are merely pretty toys; in general, he is too gaily farcical for Shakespeare's guilty merriment; and often, by smothering the words, he refuses to let Shakespeare speak for himself. Yet, though brightened, his Troilus is not bowdlerized: at the big moments Achilles is gangster enough, and Cressida (well played by lovely Rosemary Harris) enough of a bawd. Guthrie's Troilus is like a very free but very robust translation-a fair exchange if not an exact...
Conant will speak on three successive afternoons...