Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refuses to let Shakespeare speak for himself. Yet, though brightened, his Troilus is not bowdlerized: at the big moments Achilles is gangster enough, and Cressida (well played by lovely Rosemary Harris) enough of a bawd. Guthrie's Troilus is like a very free but very robust translation-a fair exchange if not an exact equivalent...
...Republican minority members disagreed. "In a close reading of the hearings," they said, "we must come to the conclusion that the technical staff presented leading questions to a select group of witnesses . . . Persons with views not in accord with those of the counsel were not given full and fair opportunity to testify." However, added the Republicans, "the facts brought to light by this investigation seem to indicate that Negro leaders, and those actively interested in the advancement of the Negro people, have much work to do among the Negro people, and that all of the difficulties attendant upon integration...
...attendants put her in an incubator and started feeding her a special baby formula. At week's end the baby (whose father is a 400-lb., 11-year-old gorilla named Baron) weighed in at 4½ lbs., and was given a fair chance to survive if she weathered the first few days. If she lives, the happy zoo officials will conduct a city-wide contest to choose a name...
...preparing malt as bait, the Arte says: "You must take a handful of well-made malt and rub it between your hands in a fair dish of water to make them as clean as you may . . ." Says Walton: "Get a handful of well-made malt, and put it into a dish of water, and then wash and rub it betwixt your hands till you make it clean...
Hopper claims that he does most of the cooking himself. "I'm the typical American husband," he adds, and the rare pronouncement, intended to amuse, echoes like a thunderbolt from the enveloping fog bank of his silence. Actually, Hopper fires off a fair share of personal observations, only he spaces them days and weeks apart. Examples: "American women are pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there...