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...intellect, in his instrument, and in his artistry. But in his first production I felt his mad scenes were not mad at all; now they are merely loony. And by choosing to play the madness for so many of its comic values, he has to his own detriment prevented the possibility of his Lear's rising to tragic or classic proportions...
...public funds, instability, demagogy, anarchy, lying, improvisation, mystification, threats, blackmail and uncertainty about tomorrow." In an aside to the Afro-Asian delegates, Boumedienne said the show would go on as planned but now it would not be "cynically exploited by one man for his personal ends to the detriment of the country's higher interests...
...should remember. And it is still not practised in many places. Even the Harvard Medical School, for example, requires women applicants, but not men, to take a psychological test. Rumblings are now being heard from Yale and Princeton, where the lack of this basic equality is seen as a detriment not only to potential woman students, but to the actual men students...
Mendes' analysis is often one-sided; like most technocrats, he underestimates the durability of emotional and ideological factors in politics and their often-positive value in rallying national energies. Yet France has traditionally been over-concerned with ideology to the detriment of her economic development; and such suggestions have an important corrective value. Whether or not they will have much practical effect in a country where politics is viewed as a form of protest rather than of affirmation is another question...
Describing Cassius as, "a detriment to the boxing world," WBA president Ed Lassman announced yesterday that he had asked the WBA Executive Committee to remove Clay's title and drop him from the heavyweight ratings. A poll of the Commissioners will be completed by Friday and Lassman has already declared "I am certain the title will be vacated...