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...comic spirit who steals the victory, a bit too successfully, quite literally from the jaws of death. As the two Hals meet, Falstaff staggers in to warn his friend that he will "find no boy's play here." But right on Falstaff's heels in Hotspur's ally, the Earl of Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between the now dead Hotspur and the fake--dead Falstaff, the scene remains unbalanced. Its impact comes and goes with the initial comic...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: The Kingdom and the Power | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

What about this one: "President J. Earl Carter Jr.," or maybe just "President J.E. Carter." Nope, says the White House, it has to be "Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Question Now: Who Carter? | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Library of Congress has him down in the card file of all card files as Jimmy. The Encyclopaedia Britannica gulped hard and dedicated its latest edition to "President Jimmy Carter and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II." Washington's Social List wanted to make it James Earl, but an alarmed member of Mrs. Carter's staff called up and said, "Absolutely not." It now reads, on page 120, "Carter, The President of the United States, and Mrs. Jimmy." The British Broadcasting Corp. had a policy meeting on the Jimmy issue. In broadcasting, particularly British broadcasting, Christian names stand like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Question Now: Who Carter? | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Leading the Longhorn attack is Fullback Earl Campbell, who plows through the line as if he were walking through a turnstile, gained 1,522 yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Longhorns of Plenty | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Individual Differences in Intelligence, or, We Know Who Knows, But Why?" will be the topic of a discussion by Earl B. Hunt, professor Psychiatry at the University of Washington, in 1550 William James Hall...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Listening to the Left | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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