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That primary battle spawned an animosity between Glenn and Metzenbaum that has impaired Metzenbaum's bid to defeat Taft. Taft, a staunch conservative whose father was known to a generation of Americans as "Mister Republican," has attacked Metzenbaum for his support of the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill and extensive cuts in the defense budget. Metzenbaum responded with criticism of Taft for support the de-regulation of oil and natural gas prices and opposing common situs picketing...
...Pull 'er up a tad, please, mister," said the nonchalant teen-ager pumping gas in a Union 76 service station off Interstate 75 near Vienna...
Except the nation never saw it. CBS's Lesley Stahl ran up, shouting "Mister, who are you?" and other network reporters witnessed Ellis' rage. But the TV cameras had already homed in on the anchor men for closing comments. Much of the week was like that. In spectacular contrast to last month's Democratic Convention, the early part of the Republican gathering was so laced with suspense, color, passion and occasional humor that the show seen on the tube was far hotter than a made-for-television movie...
...objecting, as some do, to the archaic language that Miller has used to suggest the historical period and create a Brechtian distance between audience and player. The chief agents are the use of "Mister" to address the men and of "Goody" (colloquialism for "Goodwife") to refer to the women, along with a lot of unusual third-person verb forms ("He have his goodness now"). But one has only to compare The Crucible with Shaw's Saint Joan--another play that climaxes with confession, recantation and martyrdom--to see how much greater a master of language the Briton...
...subjected to a traditional form of harassment: upperclassmen ordered him not to put certain foods on his tray, or made him sit at attention while others ate. After going hungry for two days, Verr had tears in his eyes as he left the dining hall. When an upperclassman demanded, "Mister, what are you crying about?" Verr told a disjointed story about his parents' having been in an automobile accident. Verr's lie was discovered, and he was found guilty of violating the honor code by both the Honor Committee and the officers' reviewing board...