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PRESIDENT CLINTON went to Little Rock, Ark., to preach racial harmony and recall the fierce opposition to school integration there 40 years ago. Here is an excerpt from TIME's Oct. 7, 1957, report...
Roger Tamraz's remarks at the campaign-financing hearings recalled those of another witty, worldly witness who surprised Senators at the Watergate hearings, as shown in this excerpt from TIME's July 30, 1973, issue...
...mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action, published a rebuttal in Harvard magazine in July. Kirkus Reviews has declared the book "likely to be seen as the benchmark scholarly study of America's current anguish over the race question." The New Republic is planning an excerpt...
...songs and sonnets provided the show with delightful spice, then its meat and bones, of course, consisted in the dramatic scenes, excerpted from the plays. The scenes were well-selected, but most of the scenes which involved more than one actor fell prey to the common Shakespeare performance problem of speeding. This habit was especially pernicious in an excerpt from The Comedy of Errors, in which the two actors portraying Antipholus and Dromio rushed and tumbled through their lines so fast that the bawdy jokes (as well as much of the sense of the scene) left the audience...
...Hamlet excerpt--one of the many tragicomic scenes from that play--was also marked by this problem: Hamlet's comic interaction with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was much damaged by high speed and a poor sense of timing on the part of all three actors. But David W. Egan '00, the scene's Hamlet, was satisfyingly antic throughout, and gave a solid performance of the scene's classic long speeches--speeches which include such lines as "What a piece of work is a man" and "O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite...