Word: woolliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from life. His stage tactic is to open his characters' mail in public, as it were, but never to disclose their hearts, minds and motives. Acting with urbane finesse, the cast can probe no deeper than its period costumes. The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons. Item: "God, how can I silence this monstrous woman?" Item: "But you betrayed something in me, [soulful pause] deep, deep in me." Double item: Husband-"Have you defiled my bed?" Wife [tinkle of silvery laughter]-"Oh Donald, you must be the only man in England...
...Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments, to be cute, and they are too seriously worried about the very danger of self-love to be true egotists...