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...error in question is a matter of just two words, but two important and crucial ones. Lady Macbeth is trying to overcome Macbeth's reluctance and to bolster his courage to murder Duncan. He protests, "If we should fail--," and she retorts with "We fail"--two words with at least three possible interpretations (each with more than one inflection): (1) "We fail?"; (2) "We fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must...
...Monday, Dean Francis Keppel announced the appointment of two Assistant Professors in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arthur S. Bolster Jr., a teacher of history at Pelham High School, is the author of "Discipline of Advancing Truth: The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Abraham S. Fischler is presently teaching at Columbia University...
When the news broke, a group of panicky Labor M.P.s hastened off to Gaitskell, urged him to call a special private parliamentary meeting to bolster himself with a renewed vote of confidence. But Gaitskell peremptorily refused: "Why? There's no need." He was ready to give battle...
...costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis-still a sovereign remedy. Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which...
Meantime, another $275 million would be spent to develop Ghana's bauxite reserves and to bolster rail lines running to the Tema area, where a smelter would turn out 220,000 tons of aluminum a year. The metal would be shipped from a port abuilding at Tema...