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... end, I thank my husband Jeffrey Cathcart, my dear friend Tom Westlake, and actors Gerard Butler and Earl Carpenter for inspiration. I am also grat... ...bers to prepare for the night’s performance. Overhead, I heard a beautiful male voice singing. This was not the first time: probably one of the 4... ...owers over the beasts. I finished my toilette by making up my face for the stage. The footlights required extra enhancements so that the performer... ...cs a month. I could not even hold the bank account in my name as long as a male relative was available to manage the funds for me. It was a generou... ... opportunity to consider further, though, as it was now my time to take the stage. As promised in the note, Cesare performed beautifully. I did not ... ...mud tail.” Christine Daae, now the Comtesse de Chagny, had unmasked him on stage, revealing a face reputed to be so scarred and hideous that women ... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a... ...was grateful for the black weeds that held off potential suitors. I had no male guardian, and so was considered ripe spoils for the taking. It se...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...was our first excursion around the whole island, in years. We sailed past Malea Point to Eresos, to Antiss, then Methymn, and round our island, back ... ...lleviate my longing. Her perfume, kisses and caresses were not the crude, male love I wanted. However, I was half in my dreams and I remembered the ... ...on and bring him back to me. P This is theatre season and the talk is of actors and acting. I like to familiarize myself with a play before attendi... ...od.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religiou... ...o visit his sister, VOICES FROM THE PAST 74 riding all day in slow stages, to reach her hut and sleep there. I thought we would never find it... ...haraxos...no, harshness is not in keeping with a wedding. I can hear the male chorus. I hear the surf... Below us, the ocean eats at its rocks, ab...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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... are not conscious of it; but if the artist brings it into his art, on the stage say, we shall roll about with laughter and only wonder we did not not... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ... play- ers—the latter clad in frockcoats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piec... ...ats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply cro... ...on of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass be- yond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ...

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...e o’er each scene’ with him, as he actually ad- vanced through the several stages of his life. Had his other friends been as diligent and ar- dent as ... ..., Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Prerogative Cou... ...ceived my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. ... ...the law, from which he was soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage. They were recommended to Mr. Colson, an eminent mathematician and ma... ...hter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so whimsical a thought came into my mind, b... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...ll who was my grand- father.’ He maintained the dignity and propri- ety of male succession, in opposition to the opin- ion of one of our friends, who ... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments...

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...they betray. Cry, False! on them, and there is an instant echo of bleeding males in many circles, like the poor quavering flute-howl of transformed be... ...nt chilled the prospect, considered in its genial appearance as a feast of stages; having luminous extension; so, to ease his client’s mind, he ventur... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...d to the outer world by the opening of her mouth; chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some snow-bound mon- astery ope... ...ere ‘s your music?’ said the captain, twinkling for an adversary among the males, too distant or too dull to distinguish a note of challenge. ‘You’d b... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ived from the Mattock family. It is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had sc... ...nds of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies. He drops his head ... ...e laden emotions of her nature brought her round by another channel to the stage neighbouring sight, where facts, dimly recognised for such—as they ma...

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...in which not one of that hero’s mille e tre adventures is brought upon the stage? To propitiate you, let me explain myself. You will retort that I nev... ...end. Why are our occa- sional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined tha... ...Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-T urgenieff stage, and were confronted with... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...N. I thought so, sir. Morality sent to the devil to please our libertines, male and female. That is to be the fu- ture of England, is it? TANNER. Oh, ...

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...tisfied their pleasures differently. The infant's greatest pleasures were found in the mouth, in sucking and eating. This was called the oral stage ... ...ld's greatest joys and feelings of accomplishment were found in defecating, urinating, or in withholding these excrements. ―The next stage ... ...mother and of Electra‘s mother and her lover killing Electra‘s father, leaving her to be occupied by her father‘s memory. The latent stage ... ...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ...

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...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

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...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...