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...underestimate Hillary Clinton's ambition, or her destiny. It is no small thing. At the moment, condescension droppeth as the gentle rain upon Hillary. Last week Jack Newfield, in the New York Post, wrote an "imaginary secret diary entry" in which poor Hillary wonders, "Am I running to solve a mid-life crisis? To get even with Bill? ... I'm not sure who I am anymore ... Where did I get so lost?" When the idea of a New York Senate race first surfaced in February, George Stephanopoulos gave Hillary a pat on the head and advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Cry For Me, Oneonta | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...role is difficult--she must move from a state of disillusion with her many uninspiring suitors to a state of elation upon seeing Bassanio as a new suitor. Peterson exhibits her acting ability most notably during her plea for Antonio--"The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath." Peterson delivers this resonant monologue beautifully...

Author: By Ross I. Daniels, | Title: Demanding A Pound of Flesh | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

...quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from the heaven upon the place beneath."--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing (the Blues) in the Rain | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven." What a lot of hooey. The rain came down in buckets yesterday afternoon, and washed out the Harvard-Yale baseball game despite the best efforts of all concerned...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Baseball Varsity Loses To Rain in One Inning | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Referring to your front cover of Oct. 21− your ice man cometh, but he droppeth his ice before he arriveth, unless he reviseth the manner in which he holdeth his tongs. . . . PAUL RAINEY Georgetown, Ohio ¶ He always gets there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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