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...England of Crossroads of Power--the England of Burke, Pitt, and George III--"there were no party organizations ... and there was no proper discipline." The alignment of votes shifted with each new issue; "followers of the government, and even members of it, would on particular occasions speak and vote against it, and a government which normally could count on a very considerable majority would at times find itself in danger of defeat." Among those who have attempted to unravel the political tangles of the period, none matches the stature of Sir Lewis Namier. Crossroads of Power, the second volume...
Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly...
...Jones, of Whitman Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa., Mathematics; Lydia K. Lake, of Barnard Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Classics; Joan E. Lusk, of Saville House and Oradell, N.J., Chemistry; L. Emilie Schrader, of Coggeshall House and St. Paul, Minn., Social Studies; Gail E. Thain, of Whitman Hall and Evanston, III., History and Literature; Ann D. Watson, of Moors Hall and Mentham, N.J., English; and Emily Zack, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History and Literature...
...HARROD III Eureka...
...Richard III, Act I, Scene...