Word: camillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this scene begins the perilous descent into the cheap gimmickery of the fourth act. David Levi's Camillo is a barometer for the travesties of this act. Levi starts as a glorious Camillo, wonderfully obsequious to his lord but courageous enough to flee with the King of Bohemia. Levi enters the fourth act wearing a turbanlike sunbonnet and granny sunglasses, doing a mincing dance. The Adams House crowd roared...
...effective a boycott could be is uncertain. The hardened coffee addict is no more likely to drink tea than an alcoholic is to develop a taste for orange soda. Coffee can thus withstand price rises that most other commodities cannot. Camillo Calazans, president of the Brazilian Coffee Institute, concedes that there is a limit to what people will pay for coffee. But he does not think a U.S. boycott will seriously cut into Brazil's coffee exports-or prices...
...George Hearn is an admirable successor to Jack Ryland, although he is not wholly at home in Shakespearean speech. Josef Sommer, absent from the AST for several seasons, is back, once more giving the impression that he was born speaking the Bard's language. This year he is Camillo, the lord who links the worlds of the two kings; and his performance is exemplary (except that the director still insists on substituting the word "undress" for the correct "discase...
...Mussolini's government--actually broadcast over the air--which read in part, Pound "will not be asked to say anything contrary to his conscience or contrary to his duties as an American citizen." The problem was really that Pound didn't understand the difference between intent and action. Even Camillo Pellizzi, the president of the Fascist Institute of Culture, said Pound was legally a traitor, but that the poet thought it was his "duty" to expose the American administration under Roosevelt...
...mining and textile conglomerate, was forced to resign after he highhandedly tried to gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...