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...commend Sister Mary Paul for expressing thoughts that many of us Americans have held but not voiced. We Americans know how the average family conducts itself, but people throughout the world think we live the flamboyant and ostentatious lives of the Kennedys. Ask any average woman her last day of complete relaxation from her household duties, or any full-blooded American man the number of times he plays football a week...
...Elias does not exaggerate the potential of her role. She attempts no feigned gaity to intimidate the audience, no sophisticated wit, no theatrical high notes. Rather, she plays the part as it is written: as an intense and sentimental romantic, with little but the intensity of her emotion to commend her to her audience. But the romanticism of the part as it is portrayed by Miss Elias secures its effect. The luscious music comes through powerfully and straightforwardly. The many musical lessons Miss Elias has learned in her relatively short but very distinguished career at the Metropolitan serve her well...
...commend you on your article about oral contraceptives [July 20]. We are all anxious to solve the population problem, and most of us believe it can best be done with reliable contraceptives. There seems to be no doubt but that these pills, taken by mouth, will suspend ovulation in the female, but it is inconceivable to me, an embryologist, that any chemical of sufficient specific potency as to suspend the normal maturation of eggs in the ovary can be free from adverse side effects. The absence of side effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial...
...speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held up continuously to hatred and contempt in newspapers and on the stage of this kingdom. I trust that...
...stunning achievements of 16th-century drama, Shakespeare's Richard II is nevertheless seldom performed. The reason is simple: it is deucedly difficult to do well. I commend the American Shakespeare Festival for courageously choosing the work to open its eighth Stratford season. The result, though certainly not definitive, is to a large degree successful...