Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author's odd conclusion is perhaps colored by the fact that Perry Madoc is all girl, and a parson's daughter. Anne Humphreys by name, she is a fortyish Welsh woman, chose the house of Collins as her English publisher "because you publish the Book of Common Prayer...
Mason might have scrapped the hearing aid altogether if he had grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school...
...philosophic, failure, it is still an important event. (What I mean is, go and see it.) For Thomas, the most intensely personal of writers, it was a bold--and unique--departure into objectivity. It has none of his trademarks: it is neither florid nor lyrical nor autobiographical; not even Welsh. By rights, such a first experiment should be an unplayable mess, hinting vaguely at possible successes if the new craft could be mastered. But, amazingly, it is alive and viable, and occasion to mourn the greatness of the plays that must surely have died unwritten with their author...
Behan's thunderous and immediate success was on the scale of another bedeviled elf, the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. But unlike Thomas, who wanted both porter and her daughter, Playwright Behan has stuck to the porter; and while it goes to his head with staggering frequency, nothing else has. His complete curtain speech in London, after he had watched Quare Fellow's opening in the company of two playgoers from Scotland Yard, was a classic: "I've been under guard here. I need a drink badly. Please forgive me." Two years ago, invited to appear...
...Welsh believed that the current experiment was "working very well" and "gave Dudley men a chance to 'live in' without changing their House affiliation." He also pointed out the advantages of social companionship and "house spirit" which come from having students live together rather than at home or off campus...