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Homely, weak, forbidden to play with more robust children, often left alone while the two women worked, he developed his own kind of compensation. "Any time I looked out the window," his mother recalls, "my boy was looking in the trash cans. He was always searching for something, but he didn't know what. He used to say, 'But Maggie, there might be something down there...
...finished weeding out and revising the list of titles in the collection, and the now titles have been published in the library's first printed catalogue. Boyond this, the library is expanding its services in new fields in an effort to attract more adherents. The young library is a robust and active five year...
...This robust independence (or egocentric anarchy) is tempered by the influence of the presidency acting on the people-not through a party machine, but more directly through the President's access to press, radio and TV. The voters reached by the President exercise an influence on Congressmen. In this way, a President can exert almost as much (or as little) leverage on opposition Congressmen as on members of his own party. As election day approaches, a popular President's influence on Congressmen can be expected to increase considerably...
...made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson, in an apt selection that suggests that Byron was right...
...actor-producer Howard Keel between 'Broadway and sixteenth-century Italy. Keel plays Fred Graham, battling to produce The Taming of the Shrew with his fiery ex-wife in the title role. Wisely following note for note the lead of Alfred Drake who played the part on Broadway, Keel is robust in voice and bearing...