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...would put Ian up with Olivier and Gielgud in his intelligence and skill," says the National Theater's Peter Hall, who directed Amadeus. "He's an original," says Trevor Nunn of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "He has a strong and complex intelligence, and he can't really be compared with anybody." Although he has the stature and the command of theatrical grandeur associated with the Olivier generation, McKellen also has something more contemporary, more recognizably his own. It is a sort of granite center, a moral core that harks back to his Cambridge teacher, the great critic...
...that earned him quick notice and a few severe warnings. One reviewer called him "a show-off," and McKellen took the criticism to heart. He started his own troupe, the Actors' Company, in part to counter this "tendency to act in an overly individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence matured the R.S.C." That double maturity led actor and director to a 1977 London production of Macbeth, in which McKellen seemed...
...nation. Furthermore, only the Selective Service System is confident that registration would help in mobilization. As Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) has pointed out, a real crisis requires efficient, well trained soldiers, not lists of 18-year-olds. Even some supporters of draft registration, such as Sen. Sam Nunn (DGa.), acknowledge that cutting waste in the defense budget and improving conditions for professional soldiers are more important than the sign-up program...
...Nunn, a ranking member on the Armed Services panel, has shown no interest in rehashing the issue. He sticks to his argument that registration is a good step, and that a peacetime draft--perhaps into the reserves--may be needed in the future, but meanwhile a far more important goal is improving military personnel by increasing pay and benefits...
Most members of Congress, in the House as well as the Senate, fall somewhere between Hatfield and Nunn, but almost everyone shares their wait-and-see attitude...