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Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...
...Inquirer has a recent history of tough city hall reporting. Its executives and beat reporters have sought to develop a healthy adversary relationship with the mayor and his aides. But Rizzo has not taken kindly to the way his chips have fallen in the local press. His disdain for the Inquirer and its evening counterpart, the Bulletin, is not concealed; he has not held a press conference in two years...
...indifference towards the February frolics goes beyond any disdain for their masochistic appeal. Yes, the root of my indifference lies largely in the fact that, from the first time I heard of the Olympics to last Sunday's closing ceremonies, our gang has never done particularly well. And that has rubbed my nurtured nationalism just the wrong...
...times not feel "part of the group." This seems to be Ms. Reisman's chief complaint, that, as a non-Christian she feels "excluded" both by the United States and from a part of the University which she considers her home. Nonsense. It is her choice to disdain Christianity and there is nothing wrong with that. Further, Harvard should avoid conflicts such as the one involving Freshman registration and Rosh Hashanah. But to contend that because not all students here are Christian members of that faith should be prohibited from expressing their sentiments in public decorations is a mischievous perversion...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His tender kindness toward all living things, coupled with his contemptuous disdain for the ravenous human animal, puts him on a plateau few people can reach...