Word: wirth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typically skillful practitioner is Timothy Wirth, 38, a liberal Democrat who reigns in Colorado's conservative Second District. His life is 80 hours a week of work, including a ride in the Red Zinger bicycle classic and a two-hour town meeting devoted to foreign policy. He knows how to work a parade so that all the people see him. When pollution became a problem in Denver, he carried a breath analyzer in his van for constituents who wanted to know the amount of carbon monoxide in their lungs. All summer he will be meeting, talking, shaking and listening...
...Peter Wirth's Old Prince Bolkonski is static at the other extreme, delivering each line with the dry rigor of orders given in battle. "Orders cannot be changed; order is order forever, un-changeable," Wirth pronounces with a monotony that characterizes all his tones and actions. It is as if the dead delusions of historians have triumphed in a way greater than even this part demands...
...Roman historian Johannes Clivius, who states, "Those absurd fellows who believe that Rome is in decline are ignorant of our empire's tremendous technological capacity: our roads, bridges, aqueducts, chariots, public buildings, feats of military engineering. Moreover, more people are reading Vergil than ever before." Peter Wirth...
...Lorna Koski, as the woman scorned, strikes the most discordant note in the play. Unsuccessful at portraying Julia's passionate melodramatics, Koski appears to have lost not her decorum and good sense, but her wits. In contrast, the two fathers, played by Jeremiah Riemer and Peter Wirth, are delightfully comfortable in their roles, delivering their lines with spontaneous conviction. As the stupidly hapless doctor to whom Loenard conspires to marry off his adoring nuisance, Robert Stier is nearly perfect...
...seems to want above all a safe society, and he has discovered that art can be dangerous. This is nothing new. As a poet in one of Yeats's plays says to the king against whom he is asserting his rights, "When did the poets promise safety, King?" Peter Wirth Teaching Fellow...