Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face this show at every turn--the small stage, the huge cast, those titanic speeches--Tamburlaine turned out remarkably well. In fact, it is the first play I have seen here that truly deserved the Loeb; instead of receiving a proper theatre, a cast of forty-five had to suffer through eighteen scene changes without a backstage and had to dive through windows on their way to dressing rooms across the court yard...
...often uses his voice effectively, though the character is so tiresomely inconsistent that consistent interpretation is impossible. Lynn Milgrim, as his wife Moira, is about as distraught as I would expect any women to be who was entrapped in Morrow's dramatic madhouse. Tim Grieser and Gordon Lund suffer from direction that flatly contradicts their lines: they try to sound like zombies with lines that sound silly delivered that...
Monday evening's final program of the Cambridge Society for Early Music seemed to suffer from a paralysis of over-refinement. While the music wanted to skip up the aisles of Sanders Theater, or in its serene moments, stretch out on its back and smile up at the ceiling, most of the performers held on to it with a mortal fear of spontaneity. Thus two sonatas by Bach and two by Mozart were unduly tame in a generally competent, but uninspired performance...
...Dock cited three of his own aunts who had lived happily and usefully until they were 70, then began to suffer the afflictions of age. Two took to port wine and gloated that they did not need drugs, while the third took to valerian (a root drug laced with alcohol) and gloated that she did not need wine. All three enjoyed life more (one to the age of 99) and became easier to get along with. "Ever since seeing this," said Dr. Dock, "I have felt that what is needed in retreats for ailing or aged people, and even...
...book first appeared), and The Super-Americans has all the best (and traces of the worst) of New Yorker style-urbane detachment, smooth understatement, and relentless pyramiding of minutiae that sometimes suggests a late evening with a victim of total recall. But though The Super-Americans might not suffer much by being cut 100 pages, it is a perceptive and entertaining Baedeker-in-depth...