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...properly stagy. His adolescent self-consciousness comes across beautifully: when he quotes Omar Khayyam, we can feel his pride at knowing a poem by heart. Fitzpatrick manages Richard's tricky character development well. He really does change; Richard quotes poetry, by the end of the play, not to impress anyone, but because poetry expresses his thoughts better than anything else...
...time the paid flunky of a vicious fascist government which engages in torture, murder even outside its own borders, and wholesale economic immiseration of a large fraction of the people under its control. Harberger's disingenuous attempt to distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile's oppressive economic program. In the New York Times...
...Dixon jumpers--elegant parabolas that caught nothing but net--evidently did not impress coach Frank McLaughlin sufficiently. He mysteriously benched Dixon through most of the second half, banishing an offensive threat it seemed Harvard could ill-afford to lose...
...would be nice to believe that measures producing largely symbolic impact will impress the Soviet Union enough to block further aggression, will reassure non-aligned nations that their territorial integrity is taken seriously. But the end result--a successful and largely cost-free Soviet annexation of another nation--will destroy any of the long range hopes for peace that proponents of economic measures alone may hope to gain. Instead of encouraging peace, such an outcome will highlight the benefits of war. While it is imperative that the U.S. must not force a cold war, us-against-them military confrontation...
...major cost to the Soviets should be the self-inflicted political cost suffered in those nations tempted by Soviet ideology," Fisher said, adding the U.S. should impress upon all non-aligned nations the duplicity in the Soviet's signing a friendship treaty with Afghanistan and then invading them...