Word: lingerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the glories of the English-speaking stage. It is a touchstone troupe whose productions linger in the mind as definitive. In its brief two-month stay at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the R.S.C. is presenting three works, a little-known Maxim Gorky play called Summerfolk, a shortened version of King Lear, and an infrequently performed Shakespeare play, Love's Labor's Lost. Here is proof, once again, of the company's complete artistic mastery...
...busy two weeks, the group had little time to take in the beauty of the region. But even seen in passing, some sights linger: the minarets and mosques of Cairo, Jerusalem's Wailing Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Sea of Galilee gleaming beneath the war-ravaged Golan. It was a crucial time to visit the Middle East, and the Americans came away guardedly optimistic that peace and prosperity, which seem so near in the region, may soon be achieved...
...admitted it. We're no longer burdened by it. Nixon can achieve the same. If so, in a relatively few years the ugly side of the Nixon Administration will begin to roll back. If not, the good will be obscured. The feeling of retribution will linger...
...President is in no rush to make over the rest of the White House in his own image and style. Many of Nixon's aides may linger for a while on the payroll. "I don't see him pushing people away," says one presidential adviser. "I would think that you will see these emotionally drained, physically exhausted people drifting away...
...activity was calculated to project an image of a Chief Executive who was firmly in command and to diminish whatever doubts might still linger over the transition from Richard Nixon to a new and untested President. Much as Lyndon Johnson did in the weeks after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Ford was reaching out for a national consensus, a show of bipartisan support-and he was doing it with a sure touch. Declared Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Ford's first days as President: "It's been excellent. I don't think he's missed...