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...little over a year, and occasionally plays parts in Glasgow. His movements are lithe, and his gestures expansive without being overwhelmingly "theatrical;" occasionally he will demonstrate what he means by reading a line himself, but not very often and always advancing the reading as a "suggestion." Most directors bark out orders, confusing their actors and exhausting their stage-managers. Some, the nice ones, may preface their demands with a "please," or end them with a "thank-you." Havergal always asks. "Is that okay?" he will say, and you get the feeling he means it. "He's very charming, and very...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: All the World's A Stage: Giles Havergal Comes to the Loeb | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

Lakhdir has shifted over from the freshman heavyweight bow position he occupied last year, while Gaut filled the six-seat on last year's freshman lightweight boat. Senior cox Carlos Cordeiro (120-lb., soaking wet), up from the third boat, will bark signals in the Big Apple...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Crews Open Regular Season | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

With the score 4-3 after two periods, B.U.'s John Bethel and goalie Jim Craig proved the Terriers' bite was as bad as their bark, as they helped their team slide to a decisive victory, Bethel garnering a last-second tally to seal...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: B.U. Smashes Providence, 5-3 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Gustáv Husak, President of Czechoslovakia, denouncing criticism of the 30th anniversary of the Communist coup: "There is an Arab proverb: 'The dogs bark, but the caravan continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1978 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...animal hair was allowed-the Celts might have devised it. But when John Rossetti made a chair, Percival destroyed it. Says he: "It was too early to have thought up such a thing." Martin Elphick, a doctor from Kent, pursued primitive medicine, treating flu with violet and willow bark, headaches with valerian root, and asthma with deadly nightshade. The Iron Agers developed their own dyes, appletree bark for yellow, the yew tree for orange, lichens for brown and green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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