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...sick animal, what to do if the weather changes-and these things aren't there unless you grow up with them." And, he might add, work with them ceaselessly. During planting time Erv rolls out of bed at 4:30 a.m., dons heavy green coveralls against the morning chill and tends to the barn chores before the cock crows. After breakfast at 6, he clambers into the enclosed cab of his 100-horsepower, red-and-white Farmall tractor and chugs into the field he will plow that day. Dinner at noon, supper at 6, then back into the fields...
...even dare submit them to the Bundestag for approval. Should that happen, Brandt's hopeful initiatives for peaceful relations with his Communist neighbors would only have made matters worse. The Soviets have made it clear that Bonn's failure to accept the Brandt treaties would chill the political climate of Central Europe...
Misplaced Mirth. The Desdemona of the present production would cast a chill on any Othello. Jill Clayburgh is beyond her depth both artistically and temperamentally. She may well have seen the inside of a Seven Sisters college, but never for a single instant does she convince one that she has walked in the court of Venice, or even rumpled her hair, let alone been heart-ravished. As lago, Anthony Zerbe is the happiest casting choice. He brings a silky, insidious plausibility to the role, which at least accounts for Othello's so persistently believing him to be "honest...
Sterile fiscal realities cast a chill light on the proposals raised by poverty scholars at Harvard and M. I. T. in a volume of essays entitled The State and the Poor. Sponsored by the Kennedy Institute of Politics, this Faculty Study Group argued, with one eye on the 1970 state elections, that the state ought to develop a comprehensive antipoverty program. The book has now appeared in paperback, and the general reader can try to guess what audience the fourteen contributing authors had in mind- social scientists, bureaucrats, or just politicos running for office. It will be hard to tell...
...referee charging that Molineaux had lead weights concealed in his fists. The referee, who by the rules should have given the fight to Molineaux, played along with the stalling tactic of Cribb's handlers, waiting for Cribb to revive. In the interim, Molineaux, unaccustomed to the climate, developed a chill. Cribb won in the 40th round...