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THIS ARCHETYPAL quality, like the rest of the play, comes through tonight's Loeb Ex production beautifully. Occasionally Cindy Rosenwald, the director, seems to seek it explicitly--in a stylized slapstick quarrel between the governor's son's two frightened doctors, for example. But just as effectively, most of the time she lets it grow naturally out of the comedy of the play--in Grusha's marriage with a purportedly dying peasant, for instance, where the musicians have to play "something that could be either a subdued Wedding March or a spirited Funeral Dirge." Rosenwald even makes Grusha's flight...
...Arming to Disarm in the Age of Détente" [Feb. 11] is like telling two men having a quarrel to train for an all-out fight, hoping that each will recognize the other's strength and back down. But just like two animals with a fighting instinct, they will end up beating each other's brains...
...insidious enemy a nation can face." He depicts the miners -and the Labor Party with which they are most closely allied-as controlled by militant leftists. A typical Tory television spot shows pound notes being flung at a miner's helmet. Then Heath appears, saying he has no quarrel with the unions, only with "extremists" who seek to bring down the elected government...
Serious advocates of impeachment have no quarrel with Schmidt that the standards being applied to Nixon should be applied with equal force to any President. What they are saying is that Nixon's conduct amounts to so flagrant an abuse of his office that the grounds already exist for impeachment, even under a narrow interpretation of the Constitution...
...bitter one. Robbed of three productive years in his fighting prime for embracing unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped, not only of his livelihood and title, but of his incomparable skills as well...