Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
DETROIT. Waving flags and singing hymns, more than 125,000 Negroes and whites paraded through downtown streets in an orderly "Walk to Freedom" protest against discrimination...
...creation of the 1914-18 war years, mixing acted vignettes with still pictures flashed on a screen, and spelling out statistical information on a high frieze of light bulbs: 2,500,000 DEAD BY 1916. To say the least, this is unlikely material for live theater. But few walk out feeling that they have had less than a stunning theatrical experience. It is Joan Littlewood's particular talent to cull any number of miscellaneous disparities and improvise them into a dramatic force, as she proved when she turned 30 pages of brilliantly spattered fragments into Brendan Behan...
...blessed with a visage full of character to start with, and knows how to walk, gesture, shake his head, blink his eyes, and in general supplement his speech with telling effect. We are caught up by this colossus of a Lear, who has not yet learned that you can't eat your cake and have it too: he wants to give up the crown and at the same time hold...
Department stores and tenements, which had rarely risen beyond five stories, began to top off at ten stories; hotels, which had assigned their help to the top floors because of the long walk up, suddenly found the penthouse floors the most desirable for tenants...