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Only one example of Director George Hamlin's all-inclusive application of energy and finesse is the night-time revel following Othello's arrival at Cyprus. A party of drunken soldiers and whores idle and sprawl with calculated precision to Iago's song-leading, and when Roderigo pursues an intoxicated...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Othello | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and an expert on China, said last night, "we don't have any more information that rounds out the story so it's hard to discuss the matter with any precision," but he added that the reports "sound true."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plot to Unseat Mao Foiled as Lin Piao Dies in Air Crash | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

In the photographs that survive from his last years, Piet Mondrian's own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pursuit of the Square | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Rich Gravity. Had it not produced such interactions, Mondrian's austerity would have had its comic side. He hated green because it reminded him of nature. In restaurants, he would sit with his back to the window to avoid seeing any trees. His main pleasure was ballroom dancing, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pursuit of the Square | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

With these four, Harvard does not lack scoring or rebounding, but traditionally weak defense and only average ballhandling could be trouble against the touch, precision teams the Crimson will meet.

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Cagers Preparing for Tough Schedule | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

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