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...much more about this stellar production would be to belabor the point. Suffice it to say that it is very good, and very well worth seeing, whether you are on the inside or the outside of the Cole Porter cult...
...relish, the Conservancy attempts to work with large land-holding corporations, identifying unused but ecologically valuable lands. Then it hammers out arrangements that make it worthwhile for a company either to donate them or sell them at a price the organization can afford to pay. "We don't belabor businessmen with their past sins," explains Conservancy President Patrick Noonan. "What we talk about instead is the parts of the environment they can help save." Business men seem impressed by this combination of philanthropy and sound finance; the Conservancy's 49,000 members include 157 corporations...
...five faculty CUE members have opposed the presence of reporters because they believed that free and open discussion could be best maintained when one is not held accountable for his/her every word. Although the five student members at the time preferred to invite the press, they did not belabor this procedural issue since the events of the meetings were ordinarily accessible to the press and public. If Mr. Emmerich still contends that the actual presence of reporters at CUE meetings is necessary and that these second-hand stories are inadequate, I only ask: "Why, then, do Crimson reporters rely...
Bate's Johnson is not without its faults. His overreliance on Freud can become tiresome, and he tends to belabor his evidence. But his commentaries on Johnson's mind are unfailingly ingenious. The severe breakdown Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated...
...came charging in. One doesn't have to be a Hollywood scriptwriter to guess what was going through Bally's mind those last hundred yards: here he was, an unknown foreigner, heading for the greatest athletic triumph of his life and world-wide fame. It is hardly worthwhile to belabor the pain of his rude awakening...