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...original team trained for this area has not arrived. When it will, no one knows. Each team operating in Salzburg has never known whether it would be here the following day to continue its job. Naturally, nobody is able to lay down any long-range plans or impress the Austrians with a clear-cut program...
When the future emperor was ten years old, Emperor Meiji died and General Nogi dramatized the most important element in the boy's education-Shinto-by an act that startled the world and can scarcely have failed to impress the child...
Although he is too gaunt and spindle shacked a figure to impress as the perfect Hamlet, Eliot Duvey handles one of Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...
Jackson's Presidency was "a series of battles in which he exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office of the Presidency, but it was one of his own reckless and insurgent personality, not that of his incidental profession...
...John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...