Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance was an extraordinary phenomenon in the new history of diplomacy and a striking vindication of the President who sent him. First, it was a performance of sheer physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied...
...attention has been called to the letter of yours that Cyrus Durgin, drama and music critic of the Boston Globe, printed in last Sunday's newspaper. I was shocked to find a person of your eminence unleashing such an ill-timed and sloppily thought-out barrage against the Cambridge Drama Festival's tenancy this summer of the new, State-constructed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC); and I was surprised to see Mr. Durgin rising to your bait...
Particularly impressive are Michael Wager's Malcolm and Lee Richardson's Ross. In his big colloquy with Macduff, Wager speaks with clarity, conviction, and nice rhythm. And, since Malcolm is the last person to speak in the play, it is good to have someone in the role who excels in classical diction. Richardson brings a force and earnestness that make his Thane of Ross the best of the dozen or so I have seen...
...Movies & Church. Most of the secretary's family were in Minnesota, close around Rochester and accessible for interviews. The trail led back to the first patient's grandfather, a farmer. His daughters remembered him as a "very sleepy person who always fell asleep when he sat down." His wife was normal. So were his son and younger daughter. But his elder daughter, 67, complained of severe drowsiness and episodes of sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. How she managed was a mystery because she had 16 children. She consistently fell asleep at movies, even...
...than average jealousy and backbiting among cancer fighters. As chief coordinator in this setting, Rod Heller is a near ideal choice. Says a leading independent cancer specialist: "He doesn't make people mad. He's a diplomat." Says Heller himself: "You could call me a reasonably relaxed person...