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Miss Lansbury is the actress in closest contact with the audience. She jokes with them, confides in them, and shrugs to them. They understand her; they are akin to her. Meanwhile, Miss Plowright states Jo's accusations with impish humor; the audience laughs as they listen to her. Jo literally takes her mother to task for "ruining her life;" but her statement of sorrow, of being orphaned is made in such a childlike, inoffensive manner that its impact is not felt until the conclusion. Here the depths of Jo's anguish and the great meaning of her being alone...
...arguing that both aim at "defeating the tyranny of Time": though Vermeer "had no intention of imparting to his Maidservant that morsel of eternity which the Egyptian sculptor imparted to his Zoser, he may well have wished his picture of this girl to enter into a world akin to that of the Pharaoh's statue...
Under its sleek veneer of progress-the tall new buildings, the bustling St. Johns River traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering...
...culture wave seems to be sweeping Japanese youth." Novelist Tensei Kawano, who has featured Negroes in four books, asserts: "We of the younger generation are outcasts from politics and society. In a way we are like Negroes, who have a long record of oppression and misunderstanding, and we feel akin to them." The Softies. Toymaker Suda, who would like to know how to do it again, has also tried to get at the reason behind the fad by tape-recording interviews with hundreds of customers waiting to buy dakkochans. The replies are sociologically disappointing. Some teen-agers say they...
...Jack likes Scoop," said Bobby to a Jackson aide. "You've got to give us some pegs to hang our hats on. Go, go, go!" Scoop and his team went, went, went, talking up his vice-presidential prospects until to be anti-Kennedy in the Washington delegation was akin to being treasonably anti-Scoop...