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William Ewart Gladstone, his more ardent admirers were to become convinced, had been sent to earth to trounce the foul Tory fiend Benjamin Disraeli, to be four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History records William's success in all these spheres, but it bypasses his extraordinary wife. Catherine was such an attractive woman that even Queen Victoria, who came to loathe Gladstone, almost forgave her for being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked...
...moments when she is slapped and bewhored by Othello is deeply affecting, and her dying words most touching. Olive Deering does well as the loose Bianca. But Sada Thompson's Emilia is too Desdemona-like; she ought to be sharply contrasted with her mistress--less refined, more common and blunt, at times even vulgar. I suspect the result would have been better if the Misses Thompson and Deering had exchanged roles...
...stabilization could be wiped out by a round of raises now. He caustically criticized the law that bars firing of surplus employees. In the last five years, said Eder, the number of workers in the government-run mines increased 20% while production dropped 50%. The report's blunt summary said that if Bolivians expect U.S. aid to continue at its present level (about one-third the government budget), so must stabilization...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Alfred Walter Frank Blunt, 77, outspoken Bishop of Bradford (1931-55), whose mild-seeming remarks, in December 1936, that King Edward VIII (now the Duke of Windsor) should give "more positive signs" of knowing his duty toward religion sparked the already charged atmosphere of political crisis over the Wally Simpson romance, hastened the King's decision to abdicate; after long illness; at his home near York, England...
...barren barrack that houses the workshop, a few students have felt like quitting. But most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle's blunt teaching methods leave his students (30 men, seven women) precious little time for cult cultivation. "Any time you get the men in a room," says the wife of one, "all they talk about is poetry or sports. At least three of them are frustrated second basemen...