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...long as Brook remains faithful to the Shakespearean source, his dramatic choices are justifiable, but in his desire to render the play more coherent, he makes some changes that are unforgivable. Edmund is deprived of the rhetorical flourish with which Shakespeare endowed him, and the brilliant soliloquy of the first act ("This is the excellent foppery of the world...") is shortened and presented as part of a dialogue between Edmund and his brother. Jack McGowran's Fool is more than competent but too clearly the sage unrecognized. And, incomprehensibly, Brook leaves out two of the best lines in the play...
...amendment were attached to it. Clark MacGregor, the chief White House liaison man with Congress, argued that the plan would rob the Treasury of money that would have to be replaced from another source. He also contended that the check-off system would "freeze out minor parties" and "render immune from change the central structure of each major party...
Representative Parren Mitchell of Maryland concluded that "racism in the military is so deep, so wide and so effective that we can't possibly cope with it." Frank Render, a black former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, observed that in the Defense Department "one must necessarily plow through layers of bureaucracy, but even when that was done, too often bigotry and basic racism thwarted our attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved...
...convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume would be to render a parolee vulnerable whenever his employer, willing to hire ex-convicts, hires more than one." The court reaffirmed the broad powers of parole boards to set conditions of release, but its ruling nonetheless was an indication that such actions of the boards are not beyond judicial scrutiny...
...your version is perhaps understandable. Ten is a shortened form of tenno heika, which the Japanese use when referring to their Emperor. Literally, ten means "heaven," no means "king," and heika means "his majesty." But the phrase Ten-chan is idiomatic. When I asked one friend how he would render it into English, he unhesitatingly replied...