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...wrestles with evil demons in the night, and who finally goes crazy, she is both affecting and amusing. She plays her mad scene with intelligence and restraint, pitching it just right emotionally. And if her speech about evil and beauty doesn't follow anything in the play, that's Bolt's fault...
...training college. The appointment had to be cleared all the way to the Afghan Cabinet, and no one dared to make the further request that they build a ladies' room. Hence it was not aloofness that led Miss Klass to arrange for morning classes only and to bolt home before the daily faculty lunch. Her free time was made freer by the fact that she and her husband, also a teacher, could afford a superb household staff of" four. As a result, they were able to hold almost continuous open house in an attempt to cultivate the Afghans...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, whose recent bolt to the G.O.P. probably saddened more Republicans than it did Democrats, voiced the hope that the G.O.P. "eventually will become the conservative party in the nation, in spite of Rockefeller and his ilk." If not, added Thurmond, whose losing Dixiecrat defection from the Democratic Party in 1948 had apparently taught him nothing, "then some other party would have to arise...
...identified the weapon in testimony to the Commission as the "fateful rifle of Lee Oswald." In May 1963, she said, she had often seen Oswald holding the rifle while lounging on their screened porch, peering through the cross hairs in the telescopic sight, constantly practicing the use of the bolt mechanism...
...MFDP now intensifies its criticism of Johnson's obstinacy: The states threatening to bolt the convention if the regular party is unseated are already lost to Goldwater. And Johnson may lose the liberal vote if the MFDP is not seated...