Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Brassbound's Conversion," the story of how a woman converts a purposeless brigand into a purposeful one, is supposedly dominated by the female lead, Cicely Wayneflete. As played by Ann Revere this character is weak, inconsistent, and incapable of forcing the last act climax that Shaw envisioned. According to the script she is a woman who is to have her own way, and yet the awe with which her presence is greeted at the end of the first act hardly seems merited. One indeed wonders why her every word is met with instantaneous servility...
...Weak, weaker, weakest is the order in which the varsity swimming team is taking on its opponents this season, and the first league meet with Pennsylvania tomorrow night should be a push-over for Hal Ulen's varsity...
Many times a great artist's first creation is his worst, Ivanov was Chekhov's first full length drama, and the author himself realized that it was filled with weaknesses. The play has seldom been performed in Europe, and the Brattle Company showed courage to give Ivanov its American premier. As a play Ivanov is poorly constructed. Some of the scenes approach melodrama; many of the lines are weak; and Chekhov had not yet mastered the subtleties of characterization that heightened the realism of his later works...
...village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call...
Finally he fell in with two Koreans who promised to lead him to safety. But they betrayed him and led him into a trap. When he saw the enemy soldiers, he raised his pistol to fire, but one of his betrayers struck down his hand. He was so weak that he was soon overpowered...