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...mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like a wave crashing on a steep beach. Celia Johnson, as his wife, is as bleakly crisp as burnt bacon. However, Maggie Smith as Hilde is too much the calculating minx, seemingly unaware that the sliest seductive weapon of the young is youth...
...alike is how familiar the exhibition looks, not because Gabo's work is familiar-it has rarely received such a substantial showing-but because of the pervasive influence his ideas have had on young moderns, particularly kinetic and op artists. Gabo's fragile spatial constructions, in their crisp, cool elegance, impersonal statement, exacting craftsmanship and knowing use of synthetic materials, evince all the artistic values so esteemed today-but they go back 50 years...
Brown put up a fight in only two matches -- the first and fifth singles contests. Senior Bob Higginbottom, scoring consistently with his crisp, high volleys at the net, took the first set from the Crimson's Dave Benjamin. Higginbottoms' volleying was considerably poorer on low balls, but Benjamin's control was off and he couldn't keep the ball down...
...crisp, she's trim and she mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor...
Fred Harrinqton, 53, Wisconsin. He spends half his time away from Madison on projects in which his IBM memory, crisp voice and instant answers keep countless meetings moving toward decisive conclusions. He is an adviser to HEW Secretary John Gardner and the Peace Corps, chairs the Universities Research Association, Inc. (Argonne National Labs), which is building an atomic accelerator. He taught history at Wisconsin, rose from department chairman to president in ten years, has held the job three years...