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...burning. Alizon Eliot, a young breath of innocence fresh from the convent, comes to marry Humphrey Devise, is playfully desired by the impish younger brother Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet, also has time to bewitch Thomas Mendip, the world-weary stranger, (by this time a self-styled Satan) and these two loves develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother chatters and the Chaplain wanders about with a violin...
...this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...
...helter-skelter attacks on the Middle East resolution continued, ranging from Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse's legalistic pedantry ("I am waiting for the opposition point of view to provide some answers before I proceed to rebuttal and surrebuttal and rebuttal of the surrebuttal") to Indiana Republican William Jennet's naked cynicism ("Here is the Walter Mitty dream plan for an easy, effortless world"). It remained for two Democrats, one seeking a drastic change in the resolution and the other making an eloquent plea for its adoption without amendment, to flag down the issues and get the Senate back...
...Jennet replies...
...morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent and most moving theme is the perpetual dialogue between despair and hope, the death wish and the life urge. In The Lady's most beautiful scene, Thomas Mendip speaks to Jennet, the heroine...