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...make it disappear. The lackluster production in the Quincy House JCR this weekend shows the effects of this gap in reasoning. Uninspired line-reading and pacing, added to a lack of attention to both the grand shape of the plot and the details of the illusion, can't entirely quench the snap and sparkle of Ibsen's dialogue or the power of the story he tells, but they can go a long way in that direction. What remains is an evening of striking scenes that don't build on each other, some dramatic wallops that never quite land...
...artillery and gunboats sent round after round crashing into Hamra, the downtown section of West Beirut, where the P.L.O. has no military positions except for mobile rockets and artillery pieces in the streets. As buildings sagged and crumbled, fires raged out of control. There was no water to help quench the flames; the Israelis had shut off the flow...
...They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. 4. They have no use for psychology...
...They don't read to free themselves of guilt, quench the thirst for rebellion or get rid of alienation...
...good mood that day was too irrepressible to quench. He had Politicians' Euphoria, a condition I later came to recognize on election-night victories-that moment of vulnerability when candidates are at their loosest and most expansive. Ike held a drink in his hand, and I found myself in a corner encouraging his indiscretion. Baron Krupp had just been freed from Allied imprisonment; and two of us launched him on that subject. There was nothing we could do about Krupp now in 1952, said Ike; we had to let Krupp go free; but he didn't like...