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...Guthrie's classically English style of acting. "I didn't see the value in being able to say nine lines on one breath," he says. "What was missing is what American actors are known for: interior work, subtext work." But with the advent of Director Mel Shapiro, Moriarty found a mentor whose approach to acting meshed with his own, and he soon was playing increasingly important roles in everything from Mourning Becomes Electra to Merton of the Movies...
...Shapiro, who has worked with him in seven plays, describes his performances as "very physical." Nowhere is that physical vocabulary more apparent than in his portrayal of Julian Weston. Neither obtrusively limp-wristed nor so-straight-you'd-never-know-he-was-one, Moriarty captures Julian with a slightly fluttering finger, a momentarily stuttering step, the almost imperceptible lift of his chin. It was not easy to accept the role of a homosexual, he confesses, "because it deals with an area of yourself you don't normally have to deal with." But, he reasoned...
News analyst Peter Shapiro, who alleges that he was a student in English 166, writes in The Crimson (2/8/74) that Samuel Beckett is an "English-born absurdist writer...
...should be very surprised to find out that Mr. Shapiro had read much by or about this author. Beckett was, of course, born in 1906 in Ireland (Foxrock, County Dublin) and educated at Trinity College before he departed for France. If one wished to take a colonialist point of view one might possibly say that Beckett was born in the then United Kingdom, or even in the so-called British Isles...
...sense can even the most Anglo-Irish of Dublin suburbs be geographically defined as England. All of which leads me to suspect that Mr. Shapiro is trying to explain away his lack of preparation for any exam on modern fiction by his rehashing of this most recent Harvard molehill. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Tutor in Eliot House