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...described as "semi-literate" those who praise playwrights for creating "believable characters." Shakespeare's minor characters, for example, "present only a single quality, or tone," Bentley maintained. His major characters are only "emotional forces...
...than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish, but a semi-tailored interior of gold tone, savoy crepe...
...since they were away from home, lonesome and worried. One reason spirits did not fall farther was that some were being consumed by the imperial quart, backstage and elsewhere, before, during and after each performance. More than one knight of the Round Table was caught breaking his vows. In semi-idleness, it hardly seemed like the idyled kingdom of Camelot...
...Alan pregnant." Lerner delivers the balance of the lyrics, working with obsessive intensity ; when he is really going strong, he feels ice-cold, has been known to light a fire in the middle of a heat wave while writing. Over the years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities of Oscar Hammerstein. At their best, his lyrics are like expertly...
...Strings Attached. The title story, really a short novel, is somewhat different from the others: it shows what Muriel Spark can accomplish when she forswears the stage properties of the semi-supernatural suspense story and moves her characters about with no strings attached, "he tells the life and death of Daphne du Toit, an enchanting and entirely credible South African girl whose betrayed dreams illuminate a basic Spark theme-the cruelty of reality and the greater cruelty of the illusions that falsify it. (British Author Spark herself spent 6½ years in Southern Rhodesia during World War II, working...