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...strategy and tactics and plane geometry, but in learning to use the pieces as a cooperative team. I would put little emphasis on the elements of hostility and aggression, and dismiss completely the sexual symbolism. The players are trying to overcome difficulties, and while they are also trying to attain mastery, the game is a form of social intercourse...
...sleeping at night when the has been restless, and gets the same pettish reprimand in return. But they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They attain a perfect unity as they sit side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...
...even in an optimal production, Falkenhain would probably fail to attain the stature of an ideal Dolly. She lacks both the subtlety to express her understanding of those whose lives she arranges, and a commanding presence over them. Oddly enough, she plays the part with the voice and gestures of the typically bossy Brooklyn Jewish mother--odd because Dolly's name indicates that she is an Irish girl who only married...
...Jones to his son, dated November 8th, 1854, does a kind of understanding flash forth: "I wish to make the impression on you with the point of a diamond that you never can succeed and attain to any eminence in your profession if you have anything at all to do with the management of Negro property. No man within my knowledge ever has.. ∙Horace Judson
...short musical phrase. The boogie was almost lost in the mass of rock influences until Canned Heat revived it in their 1968 single "On the Road Again". "Boogie Music." The single brought boogie back into vogue and gave the group a measure of fame they had been unable to attain as a blues band...