Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David W. Balley '21, Secretary to the Corporation, said last night that he had found no authenticity for the legend, though he admitted he had accepted it as "gospel" when an undergraduate. Bailey said that he had spoken to Clifford K. Shipton, Custodian of the University Archives who is editing Sibley's "Harvard Graduates," and Shipton has said there was nothing in the official records or in the terms under which the Boylston Chair was set up that would substantiate the bovine fable...
...performed in Shakespeare's time. Although it might be argued that the cinematic version of the Globe contains inaccuracies of construction, this taste of the full flavor of the Elizabethan stage, of the intimacy of contact between the actors and the audience, the roll of the eye and the spoken aside followed by a howl of laughter, makes this first part of the picture in its way the most delightful...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
...close-up and reaction, give Shakespeare's lines a limpid, intimate richness of interpretation which has never been available to the stage. One of the prime joys of the picture is the springwater freshness and immediacy of the lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops. Often as not, the brilliant Technicolor is deliberately anti-natural istic. Voice, word, gesture, human beings, their bearing...
...answers were uniform (though some had brass buttons): "Comrade Stalin has spoken with his great wisdom once more...