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...that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically to make the most of meager material. As a psychological Sesame Street, however, Knots has its moments. Marth Duffy, R.Z. Sheppard
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...
...dealing with his vice presidency. Former California Governor Pat Brown got a $105,000 tax write-off for giving his papers to the University of California. Former U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith gave some papers to the Kennedy Library, and took what he now feels was a "meager" deduction...
...poorest country in Western Europe, Portugal can ill afford the baubles of empire. Yet it is currently spending between 35% and 40% of its meager national budget to fight the African insurgencies. During the past five years, it has spent no less than $1.5 billion on African development. As a result of this vainglorious effort, concludes TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Portugal's three African "states," Lisbon can probably hold on there as long as it is prepared to pay the heavy price...
...impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their way through much of Chad and northern Nigeria, reducing the meager supply of food still further...