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...least impressive part of her playing comes in the long final scene, during which she is almost entirely silent; here she exhibits mastery of what the redoubtable Ethel Barry more called the hardest part of acting: the art of beautiful listening. It was a gracious gesture to assign the Epilogue to the Countess instead of the King. Miss Le Gallienne is a small woman, but she is a towering artist...
...cues. This fosters a lack of self-confidence. We become afraid to act." As Ralph Nader, John Banzhaf and other consumer crusaders have proved, the determined complainer can do plenty. For their part, companies could respond by following the example of Avis, TWA and a few other firms. They assign executives to work briefly at service jobs?as counter clerks or even car washers and baggage handlers?to learn
Despite their willingness to assign themselves political labels, more than half of the freshmen were reluctant to affiliate with any political party. Only 44 per cent said they would identify themselves as members of a political party it they were to register today and vote in a national election...
...caucus will assign electoral votes to each city and town in the Third District, based on the latest population figures. Residents from each locality will meet in Concord and the candidate who gets the majority of each locality's votes will take all the city's or town's electoral votes. For example, I come from Waban, a village of Newton, which happens to be the most populous city in the District. If I'm the only delegate who shows up from Newton, all of Newton's electoral votes will go to the candidate of my choice...
...rally was clearly indicative of the amazing difference between the Crimson when it plays careless, sloppy hockey and the Crimson when it decides to fly. Unfortunately, Harvard has provided no proven method of predicting just when it will shift disguises. And this makes it all the more difficult to assign the Crimson a definite berth in the Eastern rankings with any degree of accuracy...