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Sadat has also proved adept in winning sympathy for Egypt in world capitals, and even more skilled at another form of statecraft- shopping-list diplomacy. Ever since Sadat visited Moscow last month to discuss military resupply, a lot of sophisticated hardware has been arriving by sea and air from Russia. Among incoming weapons spotted so far are several of the Soviet Union's most advanced aircraft and missiles. Items...
Somehow, Ivy League players never rate very well when the Upper Eschelon of American football gathers in New York to compare computer outputs and flowery scouting reports that inevitably rate respective number one choices as "loaded with potential," or as having "great size," "fantastic speed," and "adept moves." Always, the top picks are "the best prospects in the last 200 years." The fans love it. The owners love it. The number one choices usually bomb...
Much more interesting than Kaiser's theories is his portrait of Sirhan, the strange little Rosicrucian enthusiast who was adept at automatic writing and obsessed with buying a Mustang. For anyone who valued Robert Kennedy, it is impossibly sad to hear Sirhan telling Kaiser: "As far as for me to have satisfied myself with Kennedy, I think all I would have needed to do was just to give him a good punch in the nose at that Ambassador. I think that would have satisfied me." Lance Morrow
...Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock). The husband is a dull, evasive clod of a businessman, and the first act is enough of an ordeal to put a playgoer's patience in doubt. The second act redeems all. As certain healers are adept at touching the body to ease pain. Playwright Duras is skilled at touching a woman's psyche to expose pain. And love, and loathing-the heart's peopled wound. And a claustrophobically confined intelligence. A Place Without Doors really lies in the land of Hedda Gabler...
Some of the most delightful moments of the evening came in songs which Miss Baez and Mr. von Schmidt sang together. Mr. von Schmidt revealed himself as an adept at the harmonica and both singers played on a cylinder of paper which makes a sound doubtless rarely before heard in the civilized world...