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Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pride of the London Season | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...surely the sweetness would be short-lived. Having her, he would lose her. Not having her, he could love her forever. Not for Jimmy McGuire, not for all the priests of Chicago, not even for the Pope, but for Nora ... yes, for Nora ... he would do what his damn fool Church and his damn fool God wanted him to do. He disengaged himself from the embrace. 'I've got to get ready for Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Luck of Andrew Greeley | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...optimist, that is, to the extent that anyone can be optimistic in this world...[thinking that there is] a better chance at maintaining stability and peace than to start to fool around with the system in significant ways. I'm concerned that the direction we're going is putting with respect to nuclear weapons too much weight on the camel's back...and we haven't even mentioned proliferation, which of course is going to complicate it....So I'm a pessimist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deterrence, the 'Freeze,' the Future | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

Mandelbaum: Structural changes I take to mean the disappearance of sovereignty, the creation of some sort of world government....Changes of management would involve no-first use proposals. It would involve [a] fool-proof, non-proliferation. It might involve drastic reductions in the arsenals of the two sides. It would involve...a radical improvement in U.S. Soviet relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deterrence, the 'Freeze,' the Future | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...house, they'll take the latter every time," he says. "People know that what they are hearing in a large house isn't realistic. An amplified voice is different not only in terms of level but in terms of quality. There's no way you can fool the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Static over Theater Sound | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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