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Dead Souls, which opened over intersession, was the company's first offering. When I saw it I was awed by the precision and unity of the cast. No expression was wasted, and even the smallest movement was related to the entire scene. The acting was carefully controlled yet emotionally convincing, and each actor presented his character with a few clear gestures, making room for an endless variety of Gogol's cynical caricatures...
Yameogo's landlocked West African country, one of the smallest and poorest of Africa's new nations, has about 4,500,000 inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta...
...Teresa Stratas is not yet the most famous soprano around, but standing a flat 5 feet, she is surely the smallest. Performance by performance, review by review, she has been inching to stardom. As Cherubino in the Metropolitan Opera's Marriage of Figaro last December and as Liu in Turandot, she won the kind of acclaim that prima donnas are made...
...Leave it to a Princetonian to devise such an esoteric term as "cept" to describe "the smallest convenient unit of knowledge" [March 26]. In the "old days" at Brown University we mundanely called these forms of knowledge "fifty-pointers." While it's true that we didn't have anything as sophisticated as "multi" or "kilo" fifty-pointers, they did work...
...What is the smallest convenient unit of knowledge...