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As acting, Richard Burton's performance is a technician's marvel. His voice has gem-cutting precision and he can outroar Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Prince of Thought | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Aside from Bramhall, the leads were unexceptionable and unexceptional. Rittenhouse as Antony delivered his funeral oration energetically to a rabble that performed with precision, though perhaps their screaming responses were too loud and too frequent. In the second half Rittenhouse too was swept away with a pace that seemed to...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Julius Caesar | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Sir: Fencing [April 3] is not only an athletic feat; it is an art, a skill, a fierce and fast-precision thing with judgments and reactions timed to the quarter-inch.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

The Department of Public Safety has set the minimum illumination in school-rooms at 20 footcandles. An HCUA representative, using a high precision light meter, found 3 footcandles of light in the audience area of Sanders Theatre and 13 footcandles in the Geological Lecture Room.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting in 2 Main Lecture Halls Found Weaker Than Law Allows | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

THEY CAME AND THEY'RE GONE. Only a few left and prices are about to go up. Precision weapons, .32 caliber, complete registration plus 50 bullets free.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Spirit of '32 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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