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...closest aides were certain how Muskie would take his defeat, whether he would sulk or come out fighting. At week's end, Muskie seemed to erase their fears. He barged into Indiana and Illinois with unusual snap, apparently relishing his new underdog role. He attacked Wallace as a "preacher of prejudice," and Nixon as the servant of special interests...
Ibsen's ardent disciple, Shaw, saw women as serene, witty goddesses of reason, but he usually defined them solely by their relationships to men. Candida's final choice is to stay with the bumbling preacher husband who needs her rather than flee with the fiery bohemian poet who can fend for himself. There are exceptions. St. Joan wins martyrdom, and Major Barbara wins control of a munitions empire, both rather atypical social pursuits. And that tells us something. Drama is a reflexive, not an innovative art form, and a playwright can rarely advance much beyond the boundaries that...
...then resumed their brilliant bumbling, the cry became "Wait'll last year!" The team was still one of the most exciting ever to take the field. There were Furillo's long, accurate throws from right field, Billy Cox's impossible, spidery stops at third, and Preacher Roe's spitballs...
Charles P. Price '41, preacher to the University, and Margaret S. McKenna '70, consultant to the University Health Services, presented pro-abortion viewpoints...
Then back to business at hand. Gerald Form from Michigan gets to play the preacher's part. Tuesday will be gone, he tells the crowd, but we'll be sure to watch to see what you can do. He leaves them with that vision...