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...under an exchange program, and then made the mistake of approaching the rope barriers that held back the kids. Suddenly the screeching mob surged past the ropes and swarmed upon him. Rescued by policemen and Secret Service agents after a riotous struggle, the President retreated to his office shorn of at least two possessions, a handkerchief and a tie clasp. But next day the two Indonesian students who had grabbed the souvenirs did their part for U.S.-Indonesian relations by returning their loot to the President...
Today, if one asks those involved with the Center what the approach of the Center is and what kind of courses will be taught there, one comes away with a composite response which, when shorn of the verbal ornamentation, virtually duplicates the foreman's . The fact is that no one knows here the Visual Arts Center is headed. There are still no clear plans and it seems unlikely that there will be any for a long time...
...great instrument which has been able to stand the test of time for over 150 years has within a very short time been shorn of all meaning by a diabolical political Supreme Court made up of political greedy old men who are not and have not been qualified to serve as a judge of any court, much less as a judge of the highest tribunal of the land. They have done the very thing prohibited by the Constitution in taking over the function of the legislature. This court, together with the hungry, mad, ruthless, ungodly, power-mad men who would...
...Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory and rashly overcolored celluloid that might have been more sensibly and even profitably employed to blow up the bank that financed this picture...
...sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish and shorn of spiritual value...