Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, Shakespeare created his weirdest world--universe, I should perhaps say--in Macbeth. And its words somehow penetrate to the very marrow of one's bones and take possession of one's whole being; Shakespeare here reaches in us the three states he has plumbed so deeply in his characters: the conscious, the sub-conscious, and the unconscious. The last two are states that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much...
...Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require an atheist to go to church...
...once in their lifetime or else be obliged to do so after death, advancing only one coffin-length each year. In the 10th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery just outside the town, and the pilgrimage turned into a "pardon walk" around the monastery's land-hence the word Tromenie, which is Breton for "tour of the refuge...
...head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum" comes from the Latin word for racecourse does not mean that just any foolish subject should be entered as an added starter, says Wriston, citing universities that field a whole hodgepodge of courses...
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Spoken Word, 3 LPs) gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half...