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Scofield's Lear succeeded in obliterating the Lear of my mind's eye. My Lear was lean and withered; Scofield's is a Lear of physical bulk and substance, a tragic counterpart to Orson Welles' Falstaff, completely convincing--I can no longer imagine it otherwise. Scofield contains the tragedy. He is not tossed about by adversity; he swallows adversity and swells to bursting...
...first team," said an impressed U.S. State Department official. It was indeed a strong group that Peking announced last week as its delegation to the United Nations. Lean in numbers, the ten-member delegation was impressively high in rank and long on diplomatic experience -convincing evidence that the Communists regard their newly won seat in the U.N. as a significant opportunity...
...people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries, but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy. All speak English. The head of the delegation, tall, lean, youthful-looking Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, 57, can switch when necessary to French or Japanese or Russian or German, the last of which he acquired (along with a Ph.D. in philosophy) at Tübingen University in the 1930s...
There were times in the Cabinet room when Ev Dirksen and the President would lean across the mahogany and look each other in the eye and make a deal and nobody watching them would know exactly what it was or how they had arrived at it, but they would know that the die had been cast. That kind of reading might even keep Harvard awake...
...Composition (1916), even these had vanished, and a fully abstract dance of signs and patches replaced them. Not even these were stable enough; Mondrian wanted to achieve a Platonic essence of structure. He now pushed reduction almost to the limit-nothing but right angles and primary color. This lean scaffolding was to occupy him from the '20s until his death. His geometric abstracts are the most systematic investigation of flat pattern in all modern art, and they have the clarity and finality of laboratory proof. No print can do justice to paintings like Composition with Red and Blue...