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...much else.) I'd love to direct you to the DVD or VHS of The Adams Chronicles, but that doesn't exist. Nor were his performances in all those Albee productions, or his 1963 Hamlet for Tyrone Guthrie, recorded for posterity. As the 19th-century tragedian Edwin Booth said, stage acting was "sculpting in snow." The imposing snowmen George built may be found only in the memories of those lucky enough to have seen them...
...poke with a squeal of irrepressible glee. Emily S. High ’06, a marketing associate at GM, stood calmly by while the Doughboy began shimmying its body from side to side. “It’s definitely drawn a lot of people to our booth,” High said. One enterprising job-hunter even used the Doughboy as an icebreaker. “Who’s in there?” he asked a GM representative. “It’s the Doughboy!” she replied with an enigmatic smile...
...revival effort has a long way to go. Confession has been in steady decline for decades. Reasons range from long-standing doubts about church teachings to the current obsession with public mea culpas that have largely supplanted the confessional booth. One oft mentioned cause is Vatican II, the 1960s church council whose reforms stressed what Pope John XXIII called "the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity." Since confession, with its accompanying penances, is all too often associated with the latter, many Catholics use Vatican II as a cue to scratch the sacrament from their to-do list. Some...
...archive database during the semester, recalled that the work of compiling the new application was not just dreary busywork. One piece of old correspondence that he remembers fondly has former University President Derek C. Bok defending to a UC representative his decision not to take part in a dunking booth event. The site’s other fresh feature—a blog for council business—is not altogether novel. A similar feature was added to the site in May 2006 only to fall quickly into disrepair. “I don’t know whether more...
...everyone in their path. Later, rugby became the one sport in which New Zealand could be confident of beating "big brother" Australia, where the best athletic talent gets scattered between several football codes. It's rugby that allows New Zealanders to believe they matter in the world, says Douglas Booth, a lecturer in sport and leisure studies at the University of Waikato. If the squad fails in France, "the country will go into mourning," he adds...