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friday, October 24, 1975 page 10 arts & bernstein on worfs Stickler sounds of silence A lighthearted look at love The subject is love next Wednesday at 8 pan. in Kimball Recital Hall. That's when the Royal Shakespeare Company brings Pleasure and Repentance to town for the second production of the UN L Performing Arts Series. Billed as a lighthearted look at love, the program brings together poetry, prose and song from around the world and across the ages. Company member Terry Hands de vised the show. "A Description of Love," by Sir Walter Raleigh, opens and closes the two-part show. Between the two readings, diversity is the production's keynote. Selections from the works of Shake speare, John Keats and John Donne are balanced by lesser known pieces by Mickey Spillane, the Rolling Stones and an 8-year-old girl named Marjory Fleming. Among songs in the program are "Cotton Eye Joe," an American traditional tune, and "So We'll Go No More A'roving," by Lord Byron, with music composed by Martin Best. Bill Homewood sings and plays guitar. Lynette Davies, David Suchet and Hugh Sullivan do the acting chores in Pleasure and Repentance. Davies has played Regan in King Lear, Lady Macbeth, and worked with Peter Brooks in his production of Midsummer Nigh t 's Dream. Suchet played the king in the company's Love's Labours Lost, which played in Omaha last spring. Sullivan has appeared in the company's productions as Rcss in Macbeth, Hastings in The Wars of the Roses and as Kokol in Peter Brook's production of MaratjSade. The Royal Shakespeare Company is headquartered in Stratford-on-Avon, birth place of the Bard. The first theater opened in 1879, but was destroyed by fire in 1926. The rebuilt theater is still in use. The company's financial support has come from Queen Elizabeth since 1971 when it was subsidized by the English nation. By Theodore M. Bernstein Sticklerian again. "Has the strike been called off, have the pickets been removed?" the justice asked. There was no answer. "1 hear silence," the justice said. That passage from a newspaper article prompt a reader to ask, "How can you hear silence?" The answer is that logically and tech nically you can't, but figuratively and idiomatically you can. The question brings to mind a sentence that was cited a couple of columns ago: "All children are not neat." Logically and literally that should mean that there isn't a neat child in the world, but no one but a stickler would read it that way. Someone can help you make a decision to live with! BIRTHRIGHT can... they provide free pregnancy tests pre-natal care financial help housing counciling medical help don't make a decision until you know all the facts. 477-8021 1 " mwm mmtr A word about they. "Everyone wishes they were rich." To most educated people these days that use of they sounds wrong and frequently a demand is raised for a hs-she inclusive pronoun that can be used in that kind of sentence. Some students of words, such as Ethel Strainchamps, maintain that such a pro nous already exists and has existed since Modern English began; the pronoun these students cite is they. Surprisingly enough, some important dictionaries, including the Oxford and the Merriam-Webster second and third addi tions, agree. In the Oxford one definition of they is: "often used in reference to a singular noun made universal by every. any, no, etc., or applicable to one of either sex." it is true that in the early days of the language they was used in that way, but, as George 0. Curme notes in "Syntax," a scholarly text, "This older literary usage survives in loose colloquial and popular speech." The implication is that it does not sur vive in careful educated speech or writing. And that implication is substantially cor rect, though the locution does appear in some educated writing. In the opening sentence above if "he or she"sounds awkward, which it usually does, you might reconstruct the sentence, making it, for example, "Everyone wishes to be rich." Word oddities. An overused word these days is syndrome, which means a collection of symptoms or characteristics that mark a certain condition. You wouldn't think there would be any thing unusual about the pronunciation of the word, but Webster's Second Edition gives the first pronunciation syn-dro-me, with its secondary sound (in medicine) as syn-drome. The Webster third edition, however, gives it as syn-drome, with a secondary pro nunciation of syn-dro-me. Thus do even dictionaries reverse themselves. (c) 1975 Theodore M. Bernstein Kraft's Campus 17th and Vine 435-9253 48 Hr. Photo Finishing Service o Tires o Repairs o Service! Gas College (light a great night to get away from the books! 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