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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...
Even some prominent Enarques have doubts about the school. Says Jean Saint-Geours ('49), head of the state-owned Credit Lyonnais Bank: "It is bad for a diversified modern nation like France to be governed by people all formed in the same mold. E.N.A. graduates are brilliant, no doubt about it, but they've not worked much in factories or sold many ties in the street." Which could be useful experience for the truly well-rounded student bureaucrat...
...speech ran on like an early epistle of Saint Paul, full of the vigor of liberal martyrdom. I never did jump...
...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...
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...