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...eyes are medical eyes imported from Germany. Laffite was a well-respected pirate who was promised a lot of money by the British Navy in return for his helping them to attack New Orleans in 1814. He double-crossed the British and helped the Americans. That won him a pardon from the President of the United States. The crowd moves...
...music of light weight. "Sigh no more, ladies," sung by Balthasar (Frederick Rivera) to the on stage accompaniment of a genuine seven-course lute, is supported in the background by a group of men singing in harmony, whose major-minor shifts are charming. The solemn song near the end, "Pardon, goddess of the night," has been turned into a men's trio, with off-stage instrumental accompaniment...
...Summer School is, of course, not a world apart from, (pardon the expression), "the real Harvard." To School goes into the coffers of the begin with, the income from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1967, the books showed a profit of $192,000 for the School. In one sense, the profit is only a paper one, since the charge which the School contributes to, for example, Widener Library, is only an approximation of what the summer use of the library's recourses costs. On the other hand, many of Harvard's overhead expenses--libraries, administration, custodial care...
...vigorous pamphlet by his father Increase put a formal stop to the dreadful affair. A general pardon was declared. The trials did not continue. Dozens of presumed witches were let go or allowed to escape...
...every time it's the same girl. The door bell rings and there she is, in a peekaboo miniskirt and a see-through blouse. She says she wants some ice cubes, but what she really wants is me . . . Half an hour later I look up from my pillow. "Pardon me," I say, playing it sophisticated, "but aren't you Raquel Welch...