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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of absurdity. Her diction is clean, and her handling of the "Fortune forbid" soliloquy is particularly distinguished. But there is more beauty in the "damask cheek" speech than she is yet able to convey. (Siobhan McKenna's portrayal remains the yardstick for this part, as for Shaw's Saint Joan and others.) The plausibility of confusion between Viola-Cesario and Sebastian is helped here through Donald Warfield's soft, rather womanly portrayal of the brother (a role once played by a 19-year-old Marlon Brando...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Twelfth Night' Opens Twentieth Season | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...speech ran on like an early epistle of Saint Paul, full of the vigor of liberal martyrdom. I never did jump...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: The Boston to Berkeley 40 Blahs Blues | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

...when he said that historians would regard Richard Nixon as "the greatest moral leader of the last third of this century." Later McLaughlin told a press conference that in the matter of the tape transcripts the President had "acquitted himself with honor." Not that McLaughlin wants a saint in the Oval Office. "If we had a saint as President of this country, it would lead to chaos and catastrophe," he maintains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Presidential Priest | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Mackey unloaded a line shot over the right field fence in the second, staking Harvard to a 1-0 lead. Muhlstock then silenced the Crimson bats until the seventh, when Leigh Hogan led off with a single to center field. And then the Saint came marching...

Author: By Thomas Aronson and William E. Stedman jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Batmen Earn Playoff Spot With Penn Twin-Kill | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...outs after Ric LaCivita was struck by one of Mr. Softy's pitches, St. Pierre placed one right between the legs of third baseman Kuchar to score LaCivita and tie it. The Saint stole second and scored the game-winner on Jimmy Thomas's double...

Author: By James W. Reinig and William E. Stedman, S | Title: Harvard Wins Three Games | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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