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...substituted one board of regents to run the state's higher-education system. He was just getting into full stride in the middle of his first term when Georgia's Senator William J. Harris died. Governor Russell ran for the unexpired term, beat Veteran Congressman Charles R. Crisp, dean of Georgia's house delegation, in a red-hot primary, and went to Washington at 35, the youngest member of the U.S. Senate...
Secretary Anthony Eden, back in his old parliamentary form after what seemed a long slump. Crisp yet relaxed, Eden mimicked Labor's Herbert Morrison with a skill that Eden's country-house friends sometimes see, but fellow M.P.s rarely do. By the time he had finished his rollicking imitation of Morrison, in 1948, demanding and getting the guillotine to push through the nationalization of steel, the fight was over. At 5:45 a.m., the guillotine motion was adopted...
...Morley are all outstanding in the principal singing roles. Miss Hubbard, as Katisha, is particularly excellent, her fine contralto voice and knack for slapstick evoking enthusiastic audience approval in the patter song, "There Is Beauty in the Bellows of the Blast." The whole production was helped greatly by the crisp singing of the on-and off-stage chorus, a tribute to Musical Director Norman Shapiro...
Conservatives fired back a few crisp volleys of their own. Wrote one: "It would be very interesting indeed to know how the Rev. J. B. Phillips would suggest that Shakespeare should be 'translated' for the poor moderns who cannot possibly understand his archaic English." Said another: "Our translations of the Bible and our Prayer Book are written in our own language at its best period. What is all the pother about...
...traditional esoterism of Advocate verse. The stark emotion George Kelly tries to get across in "Lament" bogs down in stilted verbiage, and Robert Layzer's "Absence" so snares itself in its own vague analogies that it drifts into incomprehensibility. "Southwest," by Charles Neuhauser, is better, particularly for the crisp language used to describe a desert tourist town...