Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker and Steve Schoonover made their final appearances on the Soldiers Field track memorable ones Saturday, turning in spectacular performances to pace Harvard's track team past Yale...
...vault of the Loeb mainstage auditorium. Every word and phrase spoken is clear, and the balance of voices is carefully, even scrupulously, maintained. A technical point of this sort may seem a strange point of departure for more general praise of this staging of Shaw's ideological spectacular, particularly since such matters as diction are always more notable for their lack than their presence. But the virtue of this Caesar and Cleopatra lies in the words--the glorious, humble, funny words-- and in the good faith, taste, and intelligence in which those words are delivered to an audience. There...
...play is a curious animal: a comic rehearsal of serious ideas, tricked out like an operatic or cinematic spectacular. The intellectual substance (and thus, the dramatic substance, for after all, this is Shaw) of the play is contained in a series of richly humorous but intimate conversations, between two, three, or four major characters. These are scenes directed primarily at the ear, and it is in them that the production is at its best. Eddying about the pivotal encounters, however, is Shaw's depiction of the varied and colorful life of the Egyptian court and Roman camp. These physical details...
...Harvard has improved, too. Last summer's rowing, capped with spectacular victories and near-misses against big-time international competition, raised the sights of the seven men who return from the 1967 varsity...
...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...