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Chief among his eccentricities was a passion for speaking out in the lecture room on every conceivable topic. What he liked, he praised with elaborate encomiums, phrased in flawless English, seasoned with appropriate Latin or Greek quotations. What he disliked, he loathed and damned with vehemence, often using Arabic or Turkish oaths to communicate his emotion, frequently turning purple with rage...
Peter Skolnik has staged a clever and well-placed version of The Fantasticks. The actors remove themselves from the story to joke with each other and with the audience; yet Skolnik has coached them to make a flawless transition from portrayers to portrayed. And he has succeeded in making dewy, sentimental lines like "my bride will dress in sunlight with rain for her wedding veil" sound plausible. He has skillfully used the mute (Lorenzo Weisman) in his various roles as a wall, a tree, a bricklaver, and nature...
...determined to fulfill his vow that, under him, France will "undertake great actions, assume great proportions, and greatly serve her own interest and that of the human race as well." The strategy is De Gaulle's, but he is fortunate in having at his side a nearly flawless technician in his coolly astute Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, 57, a diplomat with the surgically precise intellect and single-minded determination necessary to implement so ambitious a foreign policy...
...Class. Couve de Murville is in the tradition of his famous predecessors. He shares with Richelieu a mastery of detail and an acute sense of the true political situation, and possesses much of the glacial calm and stiff self-control of Talleyrand. So far, he has been the nearly flawless tactician of De Gaulle's grand strategy with its goals of 1) primacy in Europe, 2) increasing independence from the U.S., and 3) emergence as leader of the world's third force...
...just when Harvard's basketball fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest ebb of the season, the quintet produced a dazzling 20-minute exhibition of almost flawless play which routed the Lions...