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...hallway outside the hearing room, we waited with Dean May and Samuel R. Williamson Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Kirkland House, Dean Sheppard '71-charged with the same offense as Margolin-and Michael J. Bishop '70, another CRIMSON reporter who planned to serve as Sheppard's "advisor" in order to report what went...
...Williamson, Margolin, and I were asked to leave the room. The Committee met for about 15 minutes. They then called us back, and Wilson said I would be allowed to stay. But if an article on the hearings were published, he said, "the Committee reserves the right, on its initiative, to publish a full transcript...
Apart from Williamson, the cast is uneven, with Anthony Hopkins' Claudius and Judy Parfitt's Gertrude lacking sufficient force, maturity and sensuality. But Marianne Faithfull's Ophelia is remarkably affecting. She is ethereal, vulnerable, and in some strange way purer than the infancy of truth. Yet the granitic power and sweep of the film rest with Williamson. Here are antic wit, sly, sarcastic irony, erotic longings, a sentient intelligence that lights up thought like the sun at dawn...
Daily Plank. Williamson has something more that sets him apart from almost every other actor. He is a Scot, and every inch the child of John Knox out of Calvin. What he puts into Hamlet and all the other parts that he has played is the passionate intensity of a religious zealot. This makes him a metaphysical actor who asks people to look into the abyss of being. Most people prefer to walk the safe 9-to-5 plank of their daily lives and never look over the edge at fate...
Hemingway once said of the great bullfighter Joselito that, having given greatly of himself in the bull ring, he found the crowd asking for more. And so, said Hemingway, he gave his life, because that was all he had. That is what Nicol Williamson ineluctably gives...