Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they did in The Silver Tassie (TIME, Nov. 4) and are inclined to roar and brandish when accenting rather than violence is to be desired. To excuse these earnest people on the ground that they have a fine play would be like excusing a schoolgirl pianist because the chords that she fails to strike were conceived by Chopin...