Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is an exciting tale and it has plenty of wit and humor. But it is at heart a serious play about religious faith. Religion has been an important concern to Greene since he embraced the Roman Catholic faith. (He says it is wrong to call him a "convert"; he insists that he only "accepted" Catholicism, because it was for him an intellectual act, not an emotional...
...about it, but rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue and the wit defer to the foot and the blade...
...with true Bergeracquian heroism on playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...
...legend with fantasy, and the lyrical with the intellectual and philosophical. His unique talent imbues the erudite classical and rational with the whimsical, imaginative and romantic--distilling a sparkling essence of originality and spontaneity. He analyses the psychology of love with occasionally brilliant and penetrating flashes of Oscar Wildean wit, epigrams and repartees, and unmasks man's soul with inquisitive glee, showing sympathy and understanding of human character. His rainbow play sheds a radient vision and has an unmistakably French idiom of graciousness and lightness...
Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...