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In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony reflects on the numbing cruelties of civil war, a "domestic fury" so dreadful "that mothers shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much...
To a Harvard audience watching the current touring production at the Colonial, for example, the tale seems eerily familiar. Wasn't this just the subject of a national uproar? A juvenile, branded a criminal, overcomes unsurmountable obstacles through strength of character to attain ephemeral renown, only to have the dreadful...
Non-together people pray that they're not called upon to remember names. I've tried every trick in the book, but my name recognition ability is dreadful. My roommate and I have worked out a system--if I don't immediately introduce her to someone who greets me, she...
Kesslee catches Rebecca and puts her in a dreadful prison hoping to convince the riotous grrrl to swallow her morals and fight on his side of evil. Instead, the venomous feminist spits in the face of bad men everywhere, and escapes in a pilfered tank which she grows to love...
The conditions of life for the soldiers in Chechnya were dreadful. In Afghanistan we were issued special rations of canned meat, condensed milk, juice, crackers, tea and a Sterno can, so you could heat up kasha or rice with the canned meat. All I saw our soldiers eating in Chechnya...