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Inside & Outside. When it came to explaining his new works, the everyday English language could take Irishman Middleton just so far. Teresa, for example (see cut), was "an attempt to portray in paint the personification of the Carrick Hill area-one of the poorer Catholic districts in Belfast. An attempt to feel my way into a particular aspect of Catholic mysticism, essentially Irish." It was an attempt, said he, to show "the ecstatic otherness of relinquishing all because one has nothing at all to relinquish...
...Franz Goldman, professor at the School of Public Health, declared that the compulsory plan was the only way in which poorer persons could obtain sufficient medical care. Goldman stated that health insurance groups like the Blue Cross and Blue Shield were successful largely in industrial areas with a high income level. Blue Cross covers only between three or four percent of rural populations he said...
Richard III (by William Shakespeare; produced by Herman Levin) is one of Shakespeare's poorer plays but plushier stage pieces. So incessantly and ostentatiously villainous is the deformed, usurping Richard that down the centuries the role has been a temptation for every gaudy actor and a triumph for a number of good ones...
...more than a year's stockpile of wool on hand, about 60% of it the finer type raised chiefly in Australia and used in worsteds. Wool men feared that the surplus would take 13 years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...
Love That Scrubwoman! Conan Doyle was born (1859) in Edinburgh, the son of a frustrated painter who scraped a poor living in the civil service. Almost from the time he could toddle, the brawny boy was steeped in the favorite subject of Britain's poorer gentlefolk-the ancient and glorious past of the withered family tree. Impoverished Father Doyle claimed a relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong...