Word: yorick
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...complex reaction and low-keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with a pat on the head to a performing dog; Yorick's skull is poised with piercing ironic grace, cheek to cheek with his own living skull; the lost eyes stare into the audience as Hamlet says, very quietly, Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour...
...which he wowed G.I.s in the Pacific. It is frankly a tough guy's Hamlet, with the Prince himself anything but a softie. It moves swiftly and mounts steadily with the crackle of great melodrama. It cuts boldly across whole scenes-there are no gravediggers, no "Alas, poor Yorick," no obsequies for Ophelia. It cuts boldly across time: Actor Evans has laid it in a 19th-Century Denmark of waltzes and tight trousers...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...
...Poor Joe" About to depart for a vacation at Palm Beach, Hamlet Smith took a brief curtain to reply to Senator Robinson. As if weeping over the skull of a departed Yorick, he lamented: "Poor Joe -I'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt...