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...play from dissolving completely into schizophrenia, is played with just the right measure of perverse magnanimity. Clemenson has a commanding presence, and plays the part with a nice sense of discord--the Duke seems to have convinced himself that he is only delaying justice; he wanders around with great relish, half-distracted and yet half-taken with his own powers. In a wonderful scene at the play's end, the Duke is unmasked, and Clemenson prances, near-delighted and yet near-manic, too, as he tries to put together his patchwork solution; it is a very fine and subtle performance...
...sort of speaking engagement any President would enjoy. Ronald Reagan, however, seemed to take particular relish last week in addressing the 182nd commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Striding to the podium amid the rousing strains of Hail to the Chief, Reagan was greeted by thunderous applause from the 906 graduating cadets and 26,000 spectators in the academy's Michie Stadium. Then, in a speech lasting 25 minutes, interrupted 15 times by applause, Reagan declared that the country had grown out of its "Viet Nam syndrome" and vowed to continue his battle...
...politics are a little inconsistent, but what good would living the ascetic life have done him or anyone else? He, not to mention his family and friends, are clearly better off with the farm in Vermont and the chalet in Gstaad. So Galbraith must see, and perhaps even relish, the irony of a sentence like the following from his memoirs: "In the next summer months in Switzerland--on the Lake of Lucerte at Sils-Maria, down at Brissago on Lago Maggiore (where Hemingway's lovers came ashore afte rowing up the lake) and at Saas Fee--I read and struggled...
Besides its regular news team, CNN brings in special contributors, ranging from Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly to Hamilton Jordan and Bella Abzug. Its burgeoning audience seems willing to bear with the rough edges, and positively seems to relish the down-home feeling of such featured staffers as Weatherman Flip Spiceland, House Veterinarian Herb Tanzer and Mike the auto mechanic. Best of all, claims Turner, the network should be profitable by year...
Most of us do not relish the idea of colonizing outer space. Indeed, we have no moral right to do so-at least not until we clean up our act on this planet...