Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young American became vociferously skeptical of the Great Society. Though he retains a strong emotional identification with the deprived and spurned citizens of his own and other societies, he recognizes that the civil rights revolution, in which he was an early hero at the barricades, has reached a stage at which his own involvement is no longer vital. And, as a letter to the President signed by 100 student leaders across the nation showed last week, he has become increasingly perturbed...
...uncertain as to whether he should leave his shoes on or go barefoot. So he compromised and danced in his socks. But once he got his feet off the ground, he quickly became the barefoot boy with cheek, choreographing numbers in which dancers simply walked across the stage like pedestrians, stood rigidly still for minutes on end, or cavorted and slithered to the sound of raindrops or the recorded voice of a telephone operator giving the time check...
...undeniably, the bond that binds the members is their common love of opera. They take advantage of the club's seats to hear a favorite opera several times a season, bone up on the club's collection of librettos, delight in the chance to march around the stage in costumes as extras. Says Snyder: "Scratch the surface of an opera-club member, and underneath you'll usually find a former choirboy like me who never got over the singing virus...
...cottage 50 miles into rustic Sussex, lives "a complete family life" with his wife, Actress Joy Parker, their two children, some horses and dogs. "It sounds funny for an actor to say it," he says, "but I haven't any desire for the center of the stage...
That helps explain why he commands stage center so nobly. Says Robert Bolt...