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Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...contrast between her madness and the pretty, still-young face. In her case, insanity seems as" incongruous as in Ophelia's. This quality gives her entire performance the profound sadness of Laertes' question: . . . Is't possible a young maid's wits should be as mortal as an old man's life...
...tell which way the ball will bounce. And when that spheroid is not even round, the variables are unlimited." All he can do as a coach, he feels, is get his 11 men in a better position to chase the ball--and then pray it isn't jinxed. A mortal can do no more...
...remember in second-year Latin the story about Hercules that began: "Hercules was the son of the mortal maiden Alkmena who was visited by the God Jupiter?" That left a lot unsaid. M. Giradoux (through his translator S. N. Behrman) now says the rest. The fact that he really has little to say and says it with too many words does not particularly matter. It is a talky play, but the talk is nimble. The story itself is simple, little more than an extended practical joke. There are no memorable lines or take-home gags; it is rather an exercise...
Alkmena was probably one of the few hausfraus in ancient drama. She was, as she says, just a middle-class mortal. Following this tradition, Giradoux's Alkmena is a tender, faithful, loving wife with no desire to fulfill her destiny with Bulfinch's mythology. In the role, Anna Prince was all that Giradoux requires and brought, in addition, a certain luxuriousness to the part that added immeasurably to the play. Unfortunately, however, Miss Prince is not always understandable. Striving for variety in her voice, some of her lines became lost in a flood of sheer inflection. With that corrected, Miss...