Word: storeys
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...Wittstein has designed sets based on four vertical beams that function as an elevator shaft for a rising and falling structure, with two other second-storey platforms that roll in from the sides. These make some of the entrances and exits needlessly awkward. Domingo Rodriguez' costumes are, some details aside, generally apposite, and Tharon Musser's lighting is somewhat too active. John Duffy's opening A-minor music for brass, cymbals and kettledrums smacks too much of a Near East movie spectacular, but the later rustic music, in the traditional rustic key of F-major, is much better. When...
...audience that had gathered to hear these words was appropriate: Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; two past presidents of the American Bar Association, Charles Rhyne and Robert Storey; the current Bar Association president, Lewis Powell, and the president-elect, Edward Kuhn; William S. Thompson, secretary-general of the World Peace Through Law Center; and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
Thomas Merton, the compleat bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent "dialogue with the world" ever since. In his 24 years as a member of Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani, he has built a seven-storey mountain of poems, autobiography, reflection and translation that attests to his continuing concern for mankind at large. In this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what...
...troubled aristocrat who has taken a job as caretaker of his decaying family's decaying mansion. From his childhood it has been clear that Leonard is brilliant and in some way blighted. For several chapters, the best of the book, it seems that Storey intends to revive that abandoned form, the psychological novel. His dry, astringent description of Leonard's decline into adulthood is drawn from that curious middle ground between detachment and involvement that Dostoevsky used...
...signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey's tactic is not to ask the reader to tolerate homosexualism intellectually, but to acquiesce emotionally, thus merely increasing the reader's impatience...