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...most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles, shrill enough to make a hound bay. Nonetheless, Chéreau came out to take curtain calls, wearing blue jeans, a shiny mod belt and a patient smile. Said he later: "I was very amused...
...ineptitude. I cannot fail to mention Tom McDermott's lovable portrayal of the tired old Adam, a role that some evidence indicates Shakespeare himself originally played. Praise too for Keith Baker, making his AST debut as Amiens; not only does he speak well but he proves himself an absolutely splendid tenor in rendering Lee Hoiby's songs. And the bright E-major setting of "It was a lover and his lass," the loveliest song in all the plays (albeit extraneous here), is enchantingly and impeccably sung by two little boy-sopranos, Harold Safferstein and David Vogel. These lads then scatter...
...illustration of the country's uniqueness is the anecdote about a Swedish economist bragging to an Indian of the splendid performance of Sweden's economy. 'How many countrymen do you have?' inquired the Indian. When the Swede replied, the Indian retorted wryly, 'Well, that is what in my country we call a laboratory...
...poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold, and he seemed not insensible of the splendid appearance he made...
...Hall. Mr. Hall wrung Mr. Fleming's nose." The next morning, after "drinking early and freely of the waters," Fithian sortied out among the wooden cabins in the village to see if he had any acquaintances among the crowds gathered for the season. That night he observed "a splendid ball," as well as games of whist, five-and-forty and calico Betty. When he sought some night air out among the bushes, he was a little surprised to see "amusements in all shapes ... constantly taking place among so promiscuous a company." Fithian went to bed soon after midnight...