Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expense of the ingenuous reader, the whole history of America being the province this time of my (or my master's) invention. Maybe so, but this, as I have been at some pains to show, is a pedestrian and unimaginative way of approaching the truth. A last word of reassurance then (if it is still needed): I exist! The Prescott family existed! These chronicles exist...
...PECULIAR characteristics of the radio medium--flexibility, intimacy and the tremendous importance of the spoken word--tend to be lost when radio plays are translated into theater. When Harold Pinter wrote A Slight Ache (1959) and The Dwarfs (1960), the two plays being staged by the Adams House Drama Society this weekend, he used the radio form to experiment with a dramatic structure he felt could be "more flexible and mobile than in any other medium." More than his works written for stage, the radio plays are characterized by lucid visual imagery. His language paints whole worlds in the mind...
...familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes. His rendering of the difficult patter song is excellent, with every word--well, just about every word--clearly audible...
...peculiar way, Summer and Smoke's original weakness was its strength. It posed a diagrammatic, didactic confrontation between Alma Winemiller, representing Soul (alma is the Spanish word for soul), and John Buchanan Jr., the hell-raising son of the doctor next door, representing Body. In its somewhat dogmatic way, this conflict exemplified the central tension in Williams' work between the flesh and the spirit, which makes him an extremely Protestant writer. The late great theologian, Paul Tillich, regarded Williams as a Christian existentialist...
Competition is probably the wrong word. You won't be competing against anyone else--we look for talent, improvement, eagerness. And a lot of hard work. Come find out more at The Crimson, 14 Plympton...