Word: mans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Snow characterized Tizard as "a patriot in the way of an English naval officer," an amiable, brilliant man "with the face of an intelligent and sensitive frog." "About Lindemann," however, "hung an atmosphere of indefinable malaise." He had, Snow said, the inflated passions of a character in Balsao's novels...
...stories of men at war seem simple to the point of casualness. But in Umaru he conveys in five short pages a deep feeling for Africa and for the ever-present officer-enlisted man relationship. His touch with children is just as sure; their cruelties, independence and singlemindedness are as transparent to him as they are incomprehensible to most adults. And the ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim...
Gogo and Didi, the heroes of Waiting for Godot, are Beckett's symbols of the twentieth century man; they are former hoboes, now burns, who dress in the loose fitting and shabby formal clothes of the burlesque clown; they are former homosexuals, now incapable of satisfying each other beyond a furtive embrace or a titillating story about an Englishman in a brothel; and, because of Beckett's genius for paradox, they turn out to be dignified human beings...
...constant undercutting of pompous pronouncements about twentieth century notions of the plight of modern man manifests itself in talk about God, nature ("We should turn resolutely towards nature." "We've tried that."), and even about the play itself ("...yesterday evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That's been going on now for half a century," or "This is becoming really insignificant.") But, Beckett also elevates vaudeville routines--quick changes of identical hats and pants falling down--and cliched conversation into ironic or obscene importance. Gogo says, "I can't go on like this." and Didi replies, "That...
...even his voice are uncannily like Lahr's, except that, unlike Lahr, Deems has never been quoted to have said, "I don't understand a damn word in the whole play." His performance is splendid. Dan Morgan plays Didi in the manner of a surly, gravel voiced straight man. Though he has only two movements on stage--a mincing goose-step and a tugging at his bagy trousers--he is perfect for the role...