Word: jeweller
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David Moore in the title role is the crown jewel in this showcase of performances. In his first dinnertable scene, Moore displays a seemingly effortless command of MacLeish's verse. He makes the most poetic images sound as natural as daily conversations, vivifying their beauty. Even in his brief moments of arrogance and self-congratulation, Moore's J.B. is a charmer, firmly taking grasp of the audience's sympathy and holding it until the play's final moment. As his life heads recklessly down the path of disaster, he clings to his belief in God's goodness...
Once "the jewel" of the Economics Department today Marglin is the black sheep--the sole tenured radical professor. Having reversed his ideological stance during the turmoil of the '60s, after he received tenure, Marglin now feels, alone and isolated in a department he views as "right-wing" and "conservative...
...wanted to make it in terms of the preppy image. At that time those were the only terms in which making it counted," he explains. And make it he did; he played football, married a Wellesley graduate, and was hailed even while an undergraduate as the jewel of the Economics Department. Arthur Maass, Thompson professor of Government, remembers Marglin as a "remarkable young man who, when he was just a senior, wrote two of the best chapters in a book published by a team of graduate students and professors." Although Marglin was always somewhat to the left politically, his approach...
...term Republican Congressman from Illinois as he pursues the presidency for the first time in his life. By most standards, he should be a top contender. James Gannon, executive editor of the Des Moines Register, calls Anderson a "silver-haired orator with a golden tongue, a 17-jewel mind and a brass backbone." Respected on Capitol Hill for his courage, he was one of the first Republicans to call for the resignation of Richard Nixon. Senator Robert Dole, a long-shot rival for the G.O.P. nomination himself, says flatly: "Anderson is the brightest man running for President...