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...QUINTON J. NIXON...
...semi-final against Quinton Boat Club, Harvard was down by six seats at the start, but fought back to win it by three quarters of a length...
...with the difference between material objects and human beings, a highly technical question that, by extension, has to do with the very real problem of whether man can be explained like a flesh-and-blood object of whether he is an organism with a purpose. Another, younger Oxonian, Anthony Quinton, is completing a philosophical treatise, grandly titled The Nature of Things, that starts from the problem of identity and reference: Is a given object simply a bundle of qualities, or is it something more than that? Quinton points out that the question is as old as Aristotle, who grappled with...
...succeeds amply where most productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream turn up shy, playing it with such insouciant broadness that the steady laughter of the audience all but rubs out the lion's roar from the zoo next door. Performances are uniformly first-rate, from Albert Quinton's dolphin-eyed, full-fathomed Bottom to giant Negro Actor James Earl Jones's Oberon, who as the fairy king somehow suggests Paul Robeson on point. Joel Friedman's direction finds constant humor in the play's profusion of rhymes, which, under less talented control, often...
...believe it to be true because it is true," Quinton answered...