Word: complexe
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course not. Every actor, whether good or bad, is a unique complex of ingredients, of which his own voice is an essential one; and every actor can be validly judged only when that entire complex is presented inviolate. Otherwise, as Stanley Kauffman put it in his letter of protest, "I would never have heard the voices of Louis Jouvet, Edwige Feuillere, Takashi Shimura, Vittorio De Sica and Victor Sjostrom. These are only a few of the actors about whom I would know much less if Mr. Crowther had had his way." And I myself still recall the disconcerting experience...
Styan analyzes passages of dramatic dialogue, showing how they differ from ordinary conversation; discusses dramatic verse and how it is used; investigates meanings, impressions, and the devices actors use to interpret a text. He goes on to some of the more complex problems of drama: sequence, tempo, continuity, character manipulation, overall meaning. The book concludes with chapters on audience participation, judgment of plays, and playgoing...
What ails Fidel Castro? The diagnosis so far, according to word passed along by one of Castro's consulting physicians, is that Cuba's Premier has a complex of ills of the lower alimentary canal, including hemorrhoids, diverticulitis of the colon and an abscess with fistula...
...Webbs bought eight acres of rolling farmland seven miles south of Burlington and opened their museum the following year. Now a complex of more than 40 acres and 33 buildings, Shelburne contains, among other things, the 220-ft. side-wheeler Ticonderoga, which was shipped overland from nearby Lake Champlain, the jail from Castleton, Vt., the Colchester Reef lighthouse, a fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five...
Dine-A-Mite & Poker Chips. The man responsible for keeping soldiers and their families well supplied is Brigadier General Ray Joseph Laux, 52, a grey-haired, blue-eyed Quartermaster Corps planning expert. From his office at worldwide exchange headquarters in Manhattan, General Laux commands a retailing complex that could demand the services of a $200,000-a-year executive in the world of business; he does the job for $16,725 a year. Of the PX's 67,500 employees, some 44,000 are foreign nationals working abroad. This mix sometimes presents problems. In Morocco, faced with native snack...