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...wake of the "approval rating" president, we are left with a way of thinking that has taken over the very language we use to discuss the presidency. The term "approval rating" itself lends to wishy-washy politics, and yet our foremost priority in gauging actions taken by the administration is to analyze the effect on the rating...
Trevor Nunn, one of the world's foremost directors, enables the two centuries to live comfortably within the same space, beguilingly designed by Mark Thompson. Nunn evokes exquisite performances, notably from Felicity Kendal as one of the 20th century scholars, and from Emma Fielding and Rufus Sewell as the brilliant girl and her initially charmed, ultimately doomed tutor. As usual in a Stoppard play, the true star is Stoppard, and he has never burned brighter or more kindly...
...version of the original that Brian's lead- guitarist brother Carl Wilson referred to as "a bunt instead of a grand slam." The seven albums that the Beach Boys went on to release between 1967 and 1972 sold something like a million copies, total. Wilson retreated, becoming rock's foremost eccentric, a kind of beach-bound Sasquatch; the band struggled on, often without his participation, becoming largely a nostalgia act, a confection for sentimentalists and California dreamers...
...agreement was a new chapter in Harvard building and union relations, one which both sides seem to welcome. "First and foremost, Harvard wants to get the highest quality of workmanship at the lowest price," says David A. Zewinski, senior vice president for property operations and construction. "It has worked fine...
Prompted by a question from a female listener, Mailer and Bradlee reflected that as students at an all-male school, the feminist revolution was not foremost in their minds during their undergraduate years...