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Twelfth Night is not a pioneering work. The playwright was dealing with materials that he and others had manipulated countless times. The result was, to borrow Pope's words, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." The Bard here had three main plots going at once; and in no other play did he tie up so many complicated strands at the end with such mastery or with such a blend of feelings...
...confidence for the new government. Last week, however, Giscard and Chirac discovered that there are pitfalls in moving ahead with too much haste. Only twelve days after appointing Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, as Minister of Reform, they were forced to fire the millionaire publisher of L'Express and intellectual gadfly. The reason: J.J.-S.S.'s public criticism of the government's intention to continue nuclear tests in the Pacific...
Referring to the picketers outside, Saltonstall said he was glad they were there because everyone should be able to express an opinion on every issue...
...Negro writers ever become the mainstay of American literature," he has said, "it will be because they have learned their craft and used the intensity both emotional and political of their group experience to express a greater area of American experience than other writers of other groups...
...newspaper business; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. In 1902 Gaylord bought a piece of the Daily Oklahoman and set up the Oklahoma Publishing Co.-today a conglomerate holding two newspapers, a magazine, eight radio and TV stations, and Oklahoma's largest truck-big express service. A staunch conservative and Prohibitionist, Gaylord practiced daily calisthenics, made business trips well into his 90s, and put in a full day at the office the day of his death...