Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love...
...without mob scenes, crowded prisons and burning stakes. In. the U.S. a new kind of commonwealth in the long chronicle of church and state, they have not only endured in peace (by and large) but also they have greatly nourished their common society. Not that they have understood or loved one another. A great many Americans still see their Catholic fellow citizens as vaguely alien and as narrow-minded servants of an absolutist theology. Because their church is vast diverse and all too easily regarded as monolithic," American Catholics are often taxed with everything from Spanish Catholic intolerance to Italian...
...enormous revolve turns as Grusha and the soldiers march; music comes from offstage to accompany the songs; and scenery is moved in a public and unabashed way. The tension between the formality of the staging and the tenderness of the story makes for Brecht's tough beauty, and Hancock understood and used it with joyful discrimination...
This holy and horrible Gothic tale cannot of course be understood as a story of real men and women in real situations...
...only defect in Michael Murray's direction was a failure in the timing of some of the comic bits, but that will undoubtedly improve in the course of the play's run. Mr. Murray understood the play and used his actors' talents to perfection. He made several delightful additions, like a hilarious mimicking of Pozzo by Gogo during Lucky's tirade...