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A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart; when valor preys on reason, It eats up the sword it fights with.

Author: By M. CHRIS Rochester, | Title: Antony and Cleopatra and Others (This is the second part of a two-part feature.) | 5/8/1970 | See Source »

I think that these reactions follow primarily from our failure to recognize the implications of Chekhov's realism. His is a compassionate realism, which goes beyond categories of hope, dread, and anger, to study the reticulating recesses of self-delusion, the vicissitudes of the self-circling, sensitive, introspective mind. The...

Author: By M. CHRIS Rochester, | Title: Chekhov | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

THE GODFATHER, by Mario Puzo, is a robust, crisply narrated novel about the Mafia with a clear-cut moral: the family that preys together stays together.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Although the last word on this robust, casually served novel about the Mafia should come from the voluble Joe Valachi, the moral will be evident to a jaywalker: The Family That Preys Together Stays Together.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Family | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

But, the insatiable god who preys on oddsmakers must be served.

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Reluctant Prognosticator Sees Crimson by Safety | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

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