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...answer some interesting questions. Given the 2,435,671 quotations included in the OED2, which single author wins the citation sweepstakes? Most people would guess Shakespeare, and they would be right: 33,150 times. But who comes second? Tompa's keyboard clicks away, and the answer soon appears: Sir Walter Scott...
...response, the U.S.-led NATO proposal sounded modest and a bit miserly. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe spelled out the West's starting position, warning that NATO was not interested in a "competitive striptease." The plan, which he said went "far beyond bean counting," in essence called for deep cuts in the Eastern forces, with only minor reductions of up to 10% in NATO dispositions. Baker gave a more philosophical speech, but it was thin on specifics and failed to counter Shevardnadze's longer-range proposals...
...Prettiman, a figure of caricature in the earlier books but now a man, seriously ill, who attracts Talbot's sympathy. Prettiman, a political radical, and his new wife are transporting a printing press with which they hope to stir change in the convict colony. Talbot reprimands stiffly: "And you, sir, travelling with the avowed intention of making trouble -- of troubling this Antipodean society which is created wholly for its own betterment!" Yet the young Englishman could become dry tinder for Prettiman's incendiary rhetoric: "Imagine our caravan, we, a fire down below here -- sparks of the Absolute -- matching the fire...
...answer, of course, is e) all of the above. Sir Thomas More is one of those ubiquitous figures in history who defies easy description. He's one of those wonderful history I.D.'s that lends itself to improvisation...
Undoubtedly one of the stronger performances in the Leverett production is Keith Connell's Sir Thomas More. The strength of More's character finds its perfect match in Connell's heroically moving performance. Connell's More is both pensive and resourceful, decisive and indifferent. The dualities of More's character give the actor the greatest freedoms to flesh out and experiment with an unlimited palette of emotions. And Connell's chromatiac range of expression brings the history book figure of More to a lively representation...