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...George the life and soul of the party, but it is not making him the life and soul of the Labor Party." The paper praised Brown for unquestioned intelligence, but said that "it is George at his worst who sends shivers down our backs, the George who makes an ass of himself at diplomatic soirees and powwows. Too much wow and not enough pow. Mr. George Brown can no longer hope to be accepted and acclaimed as an intelligent Foreign Secretary if he does not display greater reticence over the point at which Genial George, or George the Clown, takes...
When law-passing legislators enact millions of laws in these United States, the best excuse for any law violation has to be ignorance. Bureaus and agencies which issue rulings and regulations multiply the mess. Is it not as Dickens wrote, "the law is a ass...
...energetically as ever for his policies. He pours out his arguments to a procession of newsmen and Congressmen, plans long-run sessions with leaders of business, labor and farm groups. He has been meeting incessantly with aides, assuring one of them recently. "This Administration hasn't lost its ass...
...Angeles, a black bartender confessed, "Older Negroes have a hell of a time with this new generation." But in the next breath he sympathized with the youthful militants. "Don't get me wrong," he said. "It's what the white man deserves for sitting on his ass for 200 years. If he had taught these kids how to read and given them a job, then they wouldn't be a problem...
...there's one hitch. The doubling of Bottom and Oberon is quite possible--except for one critical scene well along in the play (IV, i), where Bottom, with his noggin transformed into an ass' head, and Oberon must both appear and speak on stage. We are told that Anthony of Padua, Philip Neri and other saints of eld were capable of bilocation. Are they now to be joined by Saint Cyril? The suspense is hardly bearable; and the answer turns out to be: yes, apparently. Bottom appears; yes, it's Ritchard's voice all right. Titaniz puts him to sleep...