Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is, however, another side, a quieter, more relaxed side, to Burton's Hamlet. This is the gentlemanly prince, out for a walk with Horatio, who comes across a gravedigger and pauses to discuss the shortness of life; this, too, is the musing, reflective Hamlet who recites the "To be or not to be" soliloquy almost without a change of tone, almost without a gesture. Burton's Hamlet begins his speech in a reverie, and remains in it until Ophelia interrupts...
Wright recalls that just before the attack he heard a voice from behind say. "Hey, I bet that's one of those smart Harvard guys." As he started to walk faster, the same voice said "Aw, the Harvard guy is scared...
...Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...
Author Taylor is not for every taste. Some of his stories fail to get off dead center. He does not point; he does not posture; he does not underscore. But as he pokes through the dusty closets of memory, Taylor conjures up ghosts that will continue to walk abroad in the reader's imagination long after the dust of indifference has settled on his flashier contemporaries...
...last couple of weeks. J--and myself were set afoot on highway 49 last week when a gun-waving state cop arrested everybody in our party with a Mississippi license and impounded our car. We later heard that he had some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady run out of town just for serving us in her (Negro) cafe, and a man beaten just for talking to us. We've gone...