Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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That is the curious thing about Restoration comedy: like its era, it is a strange blend of the earthy and the refined. Amateur actors (and puritanical critics) in general catch only the earthy, or vulgar, spirit, missing the refinement which fires the whole...
...believe that God, almighty and incarnate, is but a benevolent Spirit; that Satan does not exist; that Christ was the author of an ethical code, but not the Godhead crucified. We profess to believe that He existed, for agnosticism is no longer the fashion. We believe that the Gospels must conform with our time and not our time with the Gospels...
...academic in this country. Lorea wrote for performance: he was a poet of the people, giving voice to their emotions and raising their language to poetry. The Harvard Dramatic Club's production of one of his farces is commendable both for its success in being true to the folk spirit of Lorea. This success is mainly due to the superb acting of Joanna Brown, the leading lady, who is on stage for all but a few moments of the entire evening...
...followed her dictum about Mrs. Brown; "She is an old lady of unlimited capacity and infinite variety . . . the things she says and the things she does and her eyes and her nose and her speech and her silence have an overwhelming fascination, for she is, of course, the spirit we live by, life itself...
...course, too much to expect that any film can make a true penetration into Michelangelo's philosophy and the great creative spirit that inspired and maintained him. "The Titan," however, has managed to express a sense of the greatness of Michelangelo--the man and the artist...