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Given the need, value, and ability to offer a course in Soviet Civilization, it would seem such a project deserves serious consideration. With the recent grant for international studies this may be the time appropriate for discussing this proposal. Voices both pro and con are available among the students and faculty. Frank A. Orban...
More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom-that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught. He could con the forked tongue out of a snake. Under Tartuffe's spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making...
...thoroughly convinced President Johnson is a far greater con man than W. C. Fields was-but only time will tell if he is as comical...
...like living in a little white cottage with a picket fence and roses." No. 2 was Michael Wilding, "who was much older than I was." No. 3 was Mike Todd, "a marvelous man. He had a joy, a vitality that was so contagious, so flamboyant. He was a real con artist. He could con the gold out of your teeth." No. 4 was Eddie Fisher: "I really thought for some idiotic reason that Eddie needed me. It turned out all we had in common was Mike...
Opposition to the Con Ed project has come mainly from conservation groups, who claim that it would destroy the area's natural beauty...