Word: benning
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Jaques (also Shakespeare's invention), the cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling...
...even a larger debate on whether the self-confidence has been building all along and the Bicentennial simply provided an opportunity to parade it or whether all the fireworks and songs had actually been a catalyst for something new. Washington's resident joy boys, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, who write on political moods, felt vindicated since they have said for years America was never as down as others insisted. "This country listened to Jerry Rubin too long," said Scammon. "We heard from the mass of America on July 4. They have always been this way." And Wallenberg...
...fault of Pittston's. (Later, in the face of mounting public pressure, he would appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate the disaster; the committee turned up damaging evidence against the company.) Pittston said nothing, except that the disaster was an "act of God," although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where to affix the blame--it was God all right, they said: the Almighty Dollar...
Barring the wildly unforeseen, there will be none of that at the Garden. The chief suspense is now focused on Carter's choice for his running mate (see story page 12). Says Political Analyst Ben Wattenberg: "The war's over...
...Jimmy Carter depends on and trusts above all others, Charles Hughes Kirbo, 59, was talking about his boyhood days in the peanut and sawmill country of rural south Georgia. Kirbo's voice is so slow and soft that people sometimes cock their heads to hear him. His daddy, Ben Kirbo, he said, used to be a court reporter in their home town of Bainbridge and often worked right through the day into evening sessions. The son always took Ben a sack of food at night, and then stuck around to watch the trials. In those days the court...