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...last week many Americans were still trying to sort out in their own minds what he would be remembered for. There was his youth-which seemed to have kindled in young people all over the world an almost personal sense of loss. There was his style-which now shone with an ever-increasing glow, and made many of his countrymen feel a sudden deprivation of grace and beauty. And there was, in retrospect, a realization that he would have led a gallant and slashing campaign and almost certainly won re-election-and now those Kennedy years were...
...complain of only a single thing: the production was so good that the weakness in the play itself shone out crystal clear...
Chris Reaske, as a farmer, and Thom Babe, the pastor, shone like bright alpha stars in comparison, however, and made it possible for the leads to work. Reaske's storming over the injustice he suffered in a slander case was controlled but believable; unfortunately the incident had little to do with the main plot of the play...
Summer vacation! All through the school years these words once shone with dreams of long and lazy days -fish-jumping, hammock-reading, fun-filled days of time to do everything, and no need to do anything at all. But to contemporary boys and girls, summer means something else again. Even for the gold coast types with sports cars to burn, loafing is Out and working...
Play with Figures. Seeing history as a kind of gigantic morality play, Prescott decorated it with figures that are plainly preposterous. His Queen Isabella, for instance, is straight out of the 19th century romantic novel-blue-eyed, fair-haired, and possessed of a piety that "shone forth from the very depths of her soul with a heavenly radiance which illuminated her whole character." It was her remarkable innocence, says Prescott, and her implicit trust in her "ghostly advisers" that caused her to fall under the influence of the villainous Torquemada, who established the Spanish Inquisition...