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...Larry Evans, who was following the play on a pocket chess set in the press room of the Reykjavik Sports Hall, gasped, and declared, "Bobby's blundered! He's dead lost!" Sure enough, Spassky forced an exchange of pieces that left Fischer a pawn behind and in dire straits. Then, just as shockingly, Boris committed a far more obvious blunder on his 27th move. "They've gone to pieces! It's like they're playing on brennevin!" exclaimed one grand master, referring to the potent Icelandic drink that the locals fondly call "Black Death." Fischer...
...string of novels that began in 1956 with The Straight and Narrow Path, Honor Tracy has made a particular corner of Ireland her own. It might be called County Farce. It lies just this side of the Dire Straits, along the border of Blarney. It is peopled with grotesques, inanimate as well as animate: crumbling mansions where the plumbing has a will-but not a constitution -of iron; a Hereford bull that for reasons of its own sits down in a kitchen, blockading the stove; an alcoholic postman who carelessly stuffs mail into a tree stump, then thinks to bring...
...major issues of the play are centered in the complex character of Brutus, a man "with himself at war," an idealist who, as it turns out, can no more foretell the dire outcome of his well-meant acts than can Gregers Werle, the great idealist in Ibsen's The Wild Duck. James Ray gives us a Brutus that is reasonably well spoken, and rather restrained as befits an adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. But he does not reach the deep intellectuality attained by James Mason in the film, and does not sufficiently earn the posthumous tribute paid...
...question to be asked is why Dylan was once followed with such dire interest. Why did his only mildly unconventional dress and hairstyle seem such a threat to some and such an inspiration to many? How could Irwin Silber of Sing Out! write a self-righteous and uncomprehending "Open Letter to Bob Dylan" in 1964 under the guise of friendship and concern? Why was Dylan's experiment in folk-rock viewed as unspeakably treasonous? (A comparison between the lovely acoustic version of "Sounds of Silence" on Simon and Garfunkel's first album with the far more intensely haunting folk-rock...
...which the lands in question were located. The rule of thumb has been to favor private remedies in the sense of freely-arrived at contracts or grants of public power as long as these have been economically progressive and not too perturbing to the body politic. Only in dire cases is there recourse to quasi-public regulatory bodies like the administrative agencies...