Word: yeomens
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...Yeomen of the Guard...
...HEADSMAN'S BLOCK is hardly the ideal centerpiece for a comic opera, but The Yeomen of the Guard is hardly the ideal comic opera. Rife with unlikable characters and uninventive contrivances, this odd Gilbert and Sullivan number is rightfully among the rarely revived. The Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players have an obligation to give due attention to each of Sir William and Sir Arthur's works, however, and their spring production is an able and ultimately entertaining attempt at presenting the eleventh of the duo's 14 operettas...
...legend now has some scholarly support. Austin Ranney, a resident political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that the losers in past elections have often blamed the electorate. In their despair they have decided that the voters were "a bunch of jerks," not "the good peasants and yeomen" of yore. This time, says Ranney, the sense of disunion may be greater than ever. The group of inbred Democrats who have controlled the thought and mechanics of official Washington for so long is exquisitely geared to "issues," having encyclopedic knowledge of programs and laws but limited sensitivity...
...Reagan's visit to London was his speech to 500 members of both Houses of Parliament, government officials and other guests in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday. The occasion was filled with the pageantry that the British manage better than anyone else. Five Yeomen of the Guard, in Tudor uniforms and carrying halberds, stood behind the President, who was flanked by parliamentary dignitaries in full robes and wigs. At the far end of the gallery, Reagan faced a portrait of George III, as he graciously noted in his speech. The President recalled that...
...Neill's greatest weakness, though, comes in his own characterization of jailer Wilfred Shadbolt. The performance call unwarranted attention to itself from the moment the lights go up. The script of the operetta opens with Phoebe at the spinning wheel singing alone; this Yeomen begins with O'Neill clattering across the stage and mugging at the audience, all to no apparent purpose...