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...mother, who contrives the bogus legitimacy test to foil Winifred as she has foiled all previous applicants for her son's hand, is rather simply played by Judy Banks. The character requires bitchiness and vanity, two qualities which Banks humorously displays in her first scene. However, Banks fails to develop her character any further, so the only potentially evil elements in the play ends up harmless and benign...
Burns, for his part, recognizes that it would be political madness to try to foil the wishes of a new President backed by an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. For example, if Burns tried to counteract the effect of a tax cut by throttling back expansion of the U.S. money supply, he might not get the other six Federal Reserve governors to agree-and even if he did, he would practically be inviting an outraged Congress to take away the Federal Reserve's cherished independence. One newspaper cartoon pictures Burns and Carter as a Washington version of Price and Pride...
...away with the book. Alex Cutter is a disfigured cripple; in Viet Nam he lost an arm, a leg and an eye. As if to make up for these missing parts, he is a full-time resister and iconoclast who loudly lacerates the world with mockery. His friend and foil is Rich Bone, a handsome and once successful corporate executive who sees life's flaws so clearly that he has retreated to become a sort of passive picaro. Bone bums around the beaches of Santa Barbara, Calif., lives off a succession of women and wearily hopes that "something will...
Harvard's varsity got off to a roaring start when both Gene Vastole and Erich Mandelbaum swept their bouts in the foil division. David McCann followed in the same category, winning one bout and dropping...
Harvard completely dominated the foil contest, with sophomore Eugene Vastola and co-captain John Major both turning in perfect 3-0 performances, and Eric Mandelbaum holding out for an impressive 2-1 contribution. Vastol particularly shone, polishing off one opponent 5-0 before he knew what was happening to him, while Major held up in a tension-fraught atmosphere to win the decisive bout of the match...