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...long as Brook remains faithful to the Shakespearean source, his dramatic choices are justifiable, but in his desire to render the play more coherent, he makes some changes that are unforgivable. Edmund is deprived of the rhetorical flourish with which Shakespeare endowed him, and the brilliant soliloquy of the first act ("This is the excellent foppery of the world...") is shortened and presented as part of a dialogue between Edmund and his brother. Jack McGowran's Fool is more than competent but too clearly the sage unrecognized. And, incomprehensibly, Brook leaves out two of the best lines in the play...
...delegates showed their hostility to Nixon in other ways than the resolution. They accorded him one of the most discourteous welcomes in the recent annals of presidential ceremony. The band was ordered not to strike up Hail to the Chief, the President's customary entry flourish, and Meany introduced the President with a few perfunctory words. Nixon went out of his way to appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that I appreciate...
...society without such culturally enshrined music, however, a great variety of individual talents can flourish. Many recent albums have been self-contained masterpieces, capable of providing private enjoyment for the same reasons that they lack collective appeal...
...With a flourish, Nixon declared: "Today we stand in Washington on Nov. 5, a winter day. In our country, we call this kind of a day Indian summer." As it happened, it was Nov. 4-autumn, not winter-and Indian summer derives from American Indians, not Indira's countrymen. But, the President said, the weather was "a good omen for our countries"-and indeed it seemed so. Concluding with a passing allusion to the treaty signed recently by the Soviet Union and India, Nixon said that India and the U.S. are bound by a "profound morality that does...
...This flourish of a book takes Raleigh from the year 1603, when he was condemned to death for his supposed part in a plot against James I, the new king, to 1618, when James finally enforced the sentence. Raleigh was a complex figure-a scholar, poet, courtier, soldier, explorer, promoter, privateer. Garrett's narrative is appropriately various, a subtle play of moods and musings, expository fragments, incantations set in italic type, scenes from Raleigh's young manhood and middle years. But the sense is simple enough, as well as convincing; here were...