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...most villainous people in history," a collection of rotters guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes with a blue suit. The envelope, please. In chronological order: Caligula, despotic Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41; Nero, full-time Emperor and sometime violinist who struck sour notes in Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan the Terrible, nogoodnik Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584; Catherine de Medicis, Machiavelli-mentored Queen of France from 1547 to 1589 and noted butcher of Protestants; Abdul-Hamid II, murderous...
...barely within the letter, and certainly nowhere near the spirit of the law. The redress of injustice is less than joyful, and certainly less than uncompromised. That this entire ruse is unnecessary, fulfilling only the Duke's own desire for theatrics, gives the play even more of a sour edge. It is the comedy not of the gallows but of the danse macabre: a perverse and unnecessary thing. The Duke takes his charade to such cruel lengths that in the end it seems more heartless than instructive...
...show the fledgling Administration to be both temperate and decisive in dealing with a major foreign policy flap, responding cohesively to fundamental American interests in the region and the world. The result was some fancy footwork by Reagan and his men that earned them, though things might still turn sour, better than a passing grade...
Harvard's relations with the city remained sour through most of the year; the University drew fire when it finally won its battle to evict tenants from a Sumner Rd. apartment building and received widespread criticism for failing to increase its voluntary payments to the city to help compensate for 2 1/2. The only applause Harvard has won from Cambridge is for its work with neighbors in planning the development of a parcel of land on Mt. Auburn St., cooperation that may become increasingly commonplace with the passage of a tough new law that will allow Cambridge to regulate University...
...course, some have tried already, and the results usually have been provocative, if only occasionally enlightening. In A Rumour of War. Phillip Caputo presents an agonizing portrait of individual naivete gone sour, a sort of objective correlative of our government's experience. Dispatches by Michael Herr reveals a lot about Michael Herr and something about the nature of wartime journalism, but little about the war itself...