Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Garden three nights ago, in full view of the largest one-night Beanpot crowd in history, Harvard demonstrated, better than any verbal description could have, why it has barely achieved a winning record halfway through the season in which it was supposed to have...
...African Company, while avoiding sterile and monochromatic abstraction, cannot entirely escape the verbal straitjacket in which Genct has encased his ideas. While reveling in the astonishing exoticism of Esther Folle's portrayal of Felicity Trollop Pardon or Mary Alice's impish Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop, one can hardly forget that, without the stage presence of these strong personalities, the characters would be entirely forgettable-perhaps, even interchangeable. Gustave Johnson (as Deodatus Village) and Catherine Sella (as Adelaide Bobo) lack the requisite intensity and control to attain a similar mastery over their roles...
...allowed within the courthouse. It was even illegal for anyone to take pictures of our group outside the Federal Building. Minutes later a man drove up alongside the building, stopping about twenty fect away. There was a flash from a camera, and two policemen converged on the car. A verbal confrontation followed, and the man drove away...
...defense had summoned Daley as a witness in hopes of strengthening its argument that the authorities, not the radical leaders, had caused the violence. To put Daley on a verbal rack, however, required a ruling from U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman that the mayor was a hostile witness. That label would have allowed Defense Attorney William Kunstler to lodge leading or accusatory questions. Without it, Kunstler was restricted to more general interrogation, because Daley was technically a witness for the defense...
...from being a surefire part, the role of Hamlet dwarfs most actors, for the magnitude of the role requires a corresponding size and scope in the actor who plays it. Technique is not enough. Verbal violin play, a graceful carriage, a handsome profile-these suffice for the ordinary Hamlet. The great Hamlet is coached by life itself, schooled by life to think, listen, grow, love, hate, suffer and endure. So rigorous is this demand that in these more than 31 centuries there have been no more than a dozen great Hamlets. Everyone who is alive today has the rare...