Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish your reporter had spoken to members of this Department, including graduate students, rather than apply to us a generalization based on complaints with respect to other departments. Professor Buckley's extraordinary efforts should not have gone unnoted. Alan Heimert, Chairman
Articulating this dynamic interplay between spoken words and latent tensions, and maintaining the superfine balance between the three characters, present a formidable challenge to the director and his cast. If John Greenwood's production does not always succeed in this, the attempt reveals intelligence and sensitivity. Greenwood has rightly kept movement and gesture to a minimum, letting the drama unfold through the words themselves. Unavoidably, the burden of interpretation rests squarely on nuances of intonation and expression. Occasionally, these nuances go awry...
...subject -from beetling ice crags and the white chalk abysses of Rugen Island down to the plains, flooded in a benediction of yellow light, which were his equivalent for Paradise. "On the day he is painting air," Friedrich's wife said to a friend, "he may not be spoken...
James Stanton, executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association, said yesterday that he has spoken with Moulton about the possible development, but that Moulton won't be specific about Harvard's plans...
...Chee-Chee. In the Pirandellian wilderness of mirrors and puppets, emotion at least must be real. Artistically, it is emotion which must charge Pirandello's otherwise intellectualized prose with dramatic truth, as he well knew: the playwright needs to find the word which will be the action itself spoken, the living word that moves, the immediate expression, having the same nature as the act itself...