Word: tenderer
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Ricks comes to America with a long list of academic achievements. At the age of 28 a tender one for a literary critic, he wrote Milton's Grand Style which his remained a seminal work in the field of Milton criticism. His subsequent studies of Keafs and Tennyson have contributed to an appreciation of those poets. During his current tour of American campuses he has been lecturing primarily on the works of W. B. Yeats and I.S. Pliot...
...self- awareness in her new personality than in the old, notwithstanding the director's apparent intentions. Her love affair is surely no more profound and emotionally fulfilling a relationship than her marriage, as she simply embraces the first man who appears to be everything her husband is not: refined, tender, clean, skilled. Northern Italian, and sexless. Clara has merely exchanged docile acceptance of her place in the home for the equally passive but more glamorous image of middle-class femininity, hoping to pick up dignity and culture with the furs and cosmetics she acquires from her new friends. Here...
...fact that Ida has the ability to charm a 20th-century audience is impressive, considering that its basic theme is, well, sexist. Princess Ida, married to Prince Hilarion at the tender age of one (he was twice her age, he tells us), has withdrawn from society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...
...more talk, less feeling. The talk is almost exotic--about fat Tijuana whores and Chinese baskets and a house in Brighton where you wash off with PhisoHex to stave off V.D. The sex that actually happens (we hear about it through more talk) is uniform, innocuous. No one is tender, no one is embarrassed to talk about how wet somebody's twat is or where are we going to fuck. As a monotone of one lifeless mood, it all rings true. But, one assumes, congressional aides have occasional feelings never seen in Higgins's book...
...early masterpiece. If you've never seen it, you own yourself a treat, like the first time you read Lewis Carroll or Evelyn Waugh. R & G is an actor's showcase, and if the eponymous reads are any good-you should laugh from the beginning until the surprisingly, tender conclusion. The play is about two characters in search of a language and contains the most brilliant wordplay on the English stage (always rich in wordplay) since Shakespeare or at least Wilde. The "Questions" scene ("None sequitur. Thirty love.") is alone worth the price of admission. At the Loeb mainstage tonight...