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Tammy Grimes, as Olivia's gentlewoman-servant Maria, is perfect. She makes it clear that Maria's wits are as sharp as her nose and her chin; she is quite bright enough to have thought up one of the profoundest statements in the play: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Miss Grimes skedaddles and flits about with a lively infectiousness that is devastating...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...more in the role than he has extracted from it; he doesn't even live up to his own last name. Michael Wager acts a suitably foolish Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and looks ridiculous in his red and azure clothes and yellow gloves. John Karlen makes the most of the servant Fabian, the one badly written role in the play...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...Doctor of Science. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, became an honorary Doctor of Divinity; American composer Samuel Barber, Doctor of Music; and Lawrence Terry, Headmaster of Middlesex School, received an honorary Master of Arts degree. Terry was cited as a "Rugged, kindly son of Harvard, an enlightened servant of education and school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cushing, Dillon, Horton, Murphy, Bush, Geyl Gain Honorary Degrees at Commencement | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Citing Cushing, President Pusey called him "A prince of his church, ever mindful of the needs of the least of his flock." Of Dillon, the President asserted: "Great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cushing, Dillon, Horton, Murphy, Bush, Geyl Gain Honorary Degrees at Commencement | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my jamiliar friends have forgotten me . . . I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange to my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Leper | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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