Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most difficult feats in acting is to play, in tandem, the rival roles created by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Two such matching pairs exist to test the sweep and sinew of an actor's craft: Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Shylock, Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II. The last actor to play the two Jews on successive nights was Eric Porter at Stratford on Avon in 1965. Now, for the first time since 1903, the two kings are being doubled in repertory by an English actor named...
...results were announced. For the first six tracts, a combine of Gulf Oil, British Petroleum and its Alaskan subsidiary bid $97 million. Another tract, just southwest of Prudhoe Bay, brought the highest single bid of the day, submitted jointly by Amerada Hess and Getty Oil: $72,277,133. A rival consortium of Phillips, Mobil and Standard Oil of California had bid a scant $164,133 less. Having underestimated on one tract, the same group decidedly overestimated on another, making a bid of $18,130,000. The next highest bid was a nominal...
Richelieu foiled most of his enemies, including his great rival, the Spanish Minister, Olivares. After Richelieu had outmaneuvered him, Olivares blandly offered his angry king, Philip IV, a choice 17th century sophistry: "God wants us to make peace, for He is depriving us visibly and absolutely of all means of war." The great Cardinal outwitted himself, however, when he subsidized the warmaking of the fanatic Swedish Protestant, Gustavus Adolphus. Richelieu counted on Gustavus to harry the Austrian Hapsburgs, which he did. But the Cardinal was unable to keep Gustavus leashed, and until the Swede's death...
Rock or Rifle. Added to that fear is disunity among black militants; the Panthers have engaged in bitter battle with Ron Karenga's US, a rival organization. What is more, white liberals are disaffected by the riots and by the increasing radicalization of black leadership. White radicals still in the Black Power movement are trying to regain a voice in its leadership. "Things are becoming localized and fragmented," says Los Angeles' R. C. Robinson, black president of the NARTRANS, a subsidiary of the giant North American Rockwell aerospace conglomerate. "We lack a national figure like Stokely Carmichael...
British Orientalist P. J. Honey relates how in 1925 Ho betrayed a rival nationalist leader, who was seized by the French and executed in Hanoi. Answering "sentimentalists" who criticized his treachery, Ho offered three justifications for his act: 1) a dangerous rival had been removed; 2) his execution, occurring within Viet Nam, had helped create a revolutionary climate; and 3) the reward that Ho had collected for tipping off the French helped finance his revolutionary organization...