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Other citations were given to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Accepted by Baron Edgar Douglas Adrian, master of Trinity College, the award to Cambridge declared, "During the last hundred years, Cambridge has veered toward science. Good fortune this for the harsh world of today...
Such jokes did not have to be very funny to evoke bitter laughter from Turks in Istanbul last week. The government monopoly had just raised its prices on state-produced cigarettes, liquor, matches and tea. Premier "Adrian" 'Menderes, who cannot take it when newspapers dish it out. was also proving thin-skinned about satiric songs and nightclub jokes...
...Italian Pope. Under Pius XII's reign, for the first time in 500 years, non-Italian cardinals have come to outnumber the Italians, 37 to 18, but it is still considered probable that the next Pope will be Italian. The last non-Italian Pope was a Dutchman, Adrian...
There must be at least half as many ways to play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gave us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this was a notable performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it was no reflection on Adrian if he could not match it. Adrian's Shylock was simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopted a faster tempo than most actors, avoiding exaggeration and the temptation to make...
...Adrian wrung every drop out of the part of 'Liza's father. Kilty was a model Professor Higgins, and Cavada Humphrey was properly reginal as the professor's Victorian mother...