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...conscience? One vote here for Jack Nicholson, who wouldn't have any trouble with the pivotal scene in which "Rationality shrieked at him, 'Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with her at dawn in jungle pools and listen to her scream as you turn her inside out at twilight. Let go of this' -- the voice was hissing now -- 'it's outrunning you.' But the slow...
...some businesses have not fared as well as others. "Life's a Grind," run by Sergio Torres, is not only the stand's name, but seems to sum up the feelings of the merchant as well...
Harvard (5-1 Eastern Water Polo Association) defeated Army 18-15 (in overtime), the Merchant Marine Academy 24-13 and Fordham 30-12, but lost to Iona, 20-15 in Kings Point, N.Y. yesterday and Saturday...
...monotheism in Israel and in Iran (Zoroastrianism). Common to all these ideologies was what Armstrong calls "the duty of compassion," meaning authentic religious experiences must be integrated into everyday life. The Axial Age was a time of prosperity, when power was passing from kings and priests to the merchant class. "Strange as it may seem," Armstrong writes, "the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism...
Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...