Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prematurely silver-haired, courtly and softspoken, was chief of operations during the Six-Day War, and later reshaped the Israeli army for the static "war of attrition" proclaimed by Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in March 1969. Bar-Lev had his answer ready: a 100-mile line of forts, dug into the Suez sand, which weathered massive artillery assaults until the two sides agreed on a cease-fire last year. Meanwhile Elazar, also a monumentally calm commander, was backing up his chief by subduing the Arab fedayeen in the occupied territories...
Suddenly Last Summer, at the Loeb Ex, is a brilliant production of a strange and terrifying play. It is a very difficult play to stage, consisting almost entirely of two long monologues. But fine acting and ingenious direction prevent the performance from being talky or static, while still doing justice to Tennessee Williams' very poetic language...
...stage production must do more than merely present us with symbols. Director Emily Mann's idea to counteract the static nature of the play is to have dancers above and beside the stage mime some of the crucial events the characters are describing, particularly Sebastian's death. This kind of device is dangerous, but here it works, because the director has sense enough to use it sparingly, and never lets it get in the way of what's happening on stage...
Meetings open to the entire University will be held to work out the nature of specific areas of the proposed festival. Various possibilities include; dance, theatre (along with mime and opera), television and film, the static visual arts, all kinds of music, and anything else which attracts student interest...
...hardened like plaster in the wrong mold. Williams lets their fevers go livid in phantasmagoric night worlds where they soliloquize on private terrors, and create minor crises for each other, knowing what they do there will reverberate no further. His plays deal with nostalgia and hope, they have the static quality of a dream rather than the dynamic quality of fact. Williams' drama is a drama of mood, and he trades in language and gesture rather than action...