Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director and the actors must build all the visual and verbal humor upon the nearly barren skeleton of the script and, at each performance, the actors must keenly tune the pace and style to suit the particular audience in order to thwart that "first sinister cough of boredom," as Sir Noel so aptly put it. At the Tufts Arena Theater, on Friday night at least, no one coughed...
...Sir / Let us not forget that we need Kissinger more than he needs us. He is the only widely respected, farsighted and truly able diplomat who can bring about some understanding and cooperation in these times of worldwide political turmoil. Can we pride ourselves on having so many internationally successful statesmen that we can do without...
...Sir / As I read of Richard Kleindienst's loss of composure at his sentencing [June 17], I realized that all these men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder and even possibly Colson, were not the over-zealous corrupters of the office of the presidency. Rather they were the idealistic dupes of a corrupt, embittered President intent upon the political and financial destruction of all his imagined enemies...
...those of us who are not gentlemen, the paradox of football delights and intrigues. Albert Camus played goal. Sir Frederick Ayer, the philosopher, is a fan, and there is a sense in which soccer is a fair subject for a logical positivist. It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics...
Dadd's mental collapse had taken place in Egypt (hence, presumably, his "possession" by Osiris), where in 1842 he had gone as traveling artist and companion to a doughty Victorian tourist named Sir Thomas Phillips. The exotic vistas dumbfounded Dadd. "The excitement of these scenes," he wrote to a painter friend in England, "has been enough to turn the brain . . . and often I have lain down at night with my imagination so full of wild vagaries that I have really and truly doubted my own sanity . . . for I've got opened my mind...