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...Soviet fighter plane had shot down the RB-47 near the Kola Peninsula, committing "a gross violation of the Soviet Union's frontier." A Soviet vessel, the note said, had rescued two of the six airmen, and the Soviet government was holding them for "trial under the full rigor of Soviet...
...CRIMSON, which has somehow acquired a reputation for excessive rigor among its readers, had the same editor on hand for opening night as had previously reviewed the text of the play with deep qualms about the verse. He underwent a positively Pauline conversion. "A great play given a great production has come to Broadway," the Harvard community was told; "one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them.... Here is a playright who is not afraid of beautiful literate language, and none too soon. He has rejuvenated the anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare...
Within two years, he and Farel were expelled from Geneva for their extreme doctrines, but three years later the city's council called them back again. And until he died at 55, dyspeptic and exhausted, Calvin ruled Geneva with the same uncompromising rigor with which he ruled himself...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald Mac-Leish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...