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Commitment to Change. Riff's stoic statement could stand as a self-definition of the entire generation-or as a self-deception...
...again found guilty, so that guards would shoot and kill him. Instead of the deep bitterness that he might be expected to feel, Sheppard most often seems to be expressing a carping irritability; instead of suggesting that he ever despaired, he consistently paints himself as a stoic - and a man who would never consider killing as a solution to his problems...
Miss Walker achieves her intensity through a stoic stillness and a searingly powerful voice. Appleby and Meiman have difficulty sustaining the age of their characters, Appleby's stoicism verging on dullness, and Meiman's self-doubts bordering on adolescent hysterics...
...fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When he sings, there is Merman in his voice, or Rudy Vallee, or whatever will milk a laugh from a lyric. What he can't do with his voice...
...poetry was finer than his pretenses. Discarding an earlier, florid, neo-Victorian style, he developed a naturalistic technique that he called "the sound of sense," linking the counterpoint of metrical lines with the natural spoken sentences of his friends on the farms of New Hampshire. Because he admired their stoic cheerfulness, he adopted this form of speech himself, dropping the careful diction that his educated parents taught...