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University News Office Directors Deane Lord confirmed that the book will be published by an outside company, rather than the Harvard University Press, so that it will get as wide a circulation as possible...
...that it is "the best role that Shakespeare ever wrote" than will share Bernard Shaw's narrow view of the man as "a besotted and disgusting old wretch." We find in him features drawn from the miles gloriosus of ancient Roman comedy, from the stage Vice, Devil, Fool, and Lord of Misrule, from Rabelais and Heaven knows what else-all heightened through Shakespeare's astonishing inventiveness into something far greater than the sum of his parts...
...Calm is the night, O Lord, as we wait for you," begin the seated brothers of Vermont's Weston Priory, singing one of the simple contemporary hymns written by their own Brother Gregory. "All the stars are laughing at our wonder." They continue antiphonally, "Christ yesterday and today/ The beginning and the end/ The alpha and the omega." And then they sing, "Glorify the Lord with me/ Let us praise his name/ Those whose spirit is crushed/ He will save." After John Denver's recording of Annie's Song is played, two brothers strum a simple accompaniment...
Despite their attempts to moderate the public spat with Washington, Thatcher and Schmidt still hoped to change U.S. policy. The British Prime Minister instructed Secretary for Trade Lord Cockfield to give notice that Britain is prepared to defy the Reagan sanctions in order to enable British companies to complete $200 million worth of Soviet orders for the huge natural-gas project. Said Thatcher to the Commons: "The question is whether one very powerful nation can prevent existing contracts being fulfilled. I think it is wrong to do that." In the same spirit, Schmidt announced that "like our European partners...
...choose a foreman, the jurors put their names into a hat. Since he was the only one with a hat, Roy Jackson, 64, a retired janitor, did the drawing. His random choice: himself. He smiled warily. Evelyn Washington, 27, suggested that they pray. "Lord, please guide us," she began. And then out of her Bible she read from the 24th Psalm: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart...