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...evolution. It is a task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced to midgets, and Bottom bloats into a wisecracking...
Garrulous and profane, an almost compulsive talker, Strauss is a throwback to the era of the smoke-filled rooms. At a time when the far-out liberals and the deep-dyed conservatives threaten to pull the Democrats apart, Strauss is the great compromiser who is dedicated to strengthening the center, which he defines as the "progressive middle" of the party. The job is ticklish, but Strauss points out: "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive...
...prodigious talker, La Follette also in spired Morse with his lifelong love of or atory - the longer the better...
Aaron was equally inconspicuous when he joined the Braves for spring training in 1954. "If I said three words," he says, "it was an upset. I just wasn't any kind of talker." The anonymity soon faded when Braves Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his leg in an exhibition game and Aaron was told, "Kid, it's your job until somebody takes it away from...
...Richards turned out to be a highly entertaining talker, and although I must still confess that I have not read any of his books and know nothing about his theories I have no doubt that his reputation is well deserved, Eventually be began to talk about a friend of his, whose grandmother used to recite peotry when she wanted to make him sleep. The conversation had touched on Sir Walter Scott's chapter headings, or something of the sort, and I.A. Richards was discussing the transformations folk ballads undergo...