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Mij, as his owner was soon to learn, had strange, inexplicable habits. | had | {
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He liked to nip ear lobes of unsuspecting visitors with his needle-sharp teeth. | liked | {
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He preferred sleeping in bed with his head on a pillow. | preferred | {
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Systematically he would open and ransack drawers. | open | {
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Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours. | Given | {
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so. | explored | {
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so. | stranding | {
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so. | waiting | {
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so. | rescued | {
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With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so. | lost | {
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A year and a day of this idyll is described for the reader, one in which not only discovery of a new world of personality is charted, but self-discovery as well. | described | {
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In the solitude of Camusfearna there had been no loneliness. | been | {
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`` To be quite alone where there are no other human beings is sharply exhilarating ; it is as though some pressure had suddenly been lifted, allowing an intense awareness & & & a sharpening of the senses ''. | be | {
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Now, with the increasing interdependence between himself and Mij came a knowledge of an obscure need, that of being trusted implicitly by some creature. | came | {
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Two other people in time shared Mijbil 's love : `` it remained around us three that his orb revolved when he was not away in his own imponderable world of wave and water ; we were his Trinity, and he behaved towards us with a mixture of trust and abuse, passion and irritation. | was | {
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In turn each of us in our own way depended, as gods do, upon his worship ''. | depended | {
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Yet the idyll ended. | ended | {
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The brief details of Mijbil 's death lend depth to the story, give it an edge of ironic tragedy. | lend | {
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The brief details of Mijbil 's death lend depth to the story, give it an edge of ironic tragedy. | give | {
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Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract symbol of the savage in man. | gave | {
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Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract symbol of the savage in man. | was | {
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But then, through a strange coincidence, Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating story starts once more. | manages | {
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But then, through a strange coincidence, Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating story starts once more. | acquire | {
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But then, through a strange coincidence, Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating story starts once more. | starts | {
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One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book - Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashe... | is | {
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One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book - Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashe... | emerges | {
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This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement. | read | {
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Now Gavin Maxwell 's ring of bright water has widened to enchant the world. | widened | {
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Now Gavin Maxwell 's ring of bright water has widened to enchant the world. | enchant | {
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The performances of the Comedie Francaise are the most important recent events in the New York theater. | are | {
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They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17 th century. | serve | {
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They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17 th century. | acting | {
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They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17 th century. | prevailed | {
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On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie. | reinterpreted | {
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On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie. | has | {
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Of course, the well-received revivals last longer than the others, and that further reminds us that the Comedie is not insensitive to criticism. | last | {
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Of course, the well-received revivals last longer than the others, and that further reminds us that the Comedie is not insensitive to criticism. | reminds | {
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Of course, the well-received revivals last longer than the others, and that further reminds us that the Comedie is not insensitive to criticism. | is | {
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The directors of the Comedie do not respond to adverse notices in as docile and subservient a manner as the Broadway producers who, in two instances this season, closed their plays after one performance. | respond | {
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The directors of the Comedie do not respond to adverse notices in as docile and subservient a manner as the Broadway producers who, in two instances this season, closed their plays after one performance. | closed | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | are | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | court | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | delight | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | dare | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | experiment | {
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But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic. | interpreting | {
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In France, novel approaches to the classic French plays are frequently attempted. | attempted | {
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The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere 's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results. | pays | {
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The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere 's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results. | attracts | {
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The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere 's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results. | put | {
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The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere 's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results. | achieve | {
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So far as I know, the Comedie has never put Moliere 's people in the costumes of the 20 th century, but they do reinterpret plays and characters. | know | {
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So far as I know, the Comedie has never put Moliere 's people in the costumes of the 20 th century, but they do reinterpret plays and characters. | put | {
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So far as I know, the Comedie has never put Moliere 's people in the costumes of the 20 th century, but they do reinterpret plays and characters. | reinterpret | {
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Last season, the Comedie 's two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine 's `` Phedre '' and Moliere 's `` School for Wives ''. | came | {
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Last season, the Comedie 's two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine 's `` Phedre '' and Moliere 's `` School for Wives ''. | expect | {
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Last season, the Comedie 's two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine 's `` Phedre '' and Moliere 's `` School for Wives ''. | see | {
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The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17 th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; perhaps that is the Comedie 's equivalent for thrusting this play 's characters into our own time. | done | {
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The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17 th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; perhaps that is the Comedie 's equivalent for thrusting this play 's characters into our own time. | is | {
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The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17 th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; perhaps that is the Comedie 's equivalent for thrusting this play 's characters into our own time. | thrusting | {
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The speaking of the lines seemed excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the spirit of 17 th century elegance. | seemed | {
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The speaking of the lines seemed excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the spirit of 17 th century elegance. | capture | {
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A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent. | defended | {
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A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent. | took to be | {
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A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent. | was | {
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The new `` School for Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy - the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character. | interpreted | {
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The new `` School for Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy - the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character. | becoming | {
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Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended. | tried | {
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Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended. | humanize | {
"name": "humanize",
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]
} | [
"make more humane"
] | [
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Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended. | performing | {
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Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended. | made | {
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Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended. | intended | {
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Apparently, Jouvet and Ledoux attempted just these dissimilar approaches in the role of Arnolphe in `` The School for Wives ''. | attempted | {
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I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; by that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments of the comedy. | say | {
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I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; by that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments of the comedy. | saw | {
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I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; by that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments of the comedy. | visited | {
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I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; by that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments of the comedy. | seemed | {
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I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; by that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments of the comedy. | dropped | {
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Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be. | recalled | {
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