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...usually Southern) committee chairmen. Nowadays you do not see a chairman of the Rules Committee putting controversial bills in his pocket and going off to a Virginia farm, the way Congressman Howard Smith used to do in the '40s and '50s - "I have an old sow that just loves to have her ear scratched. I've got to tend her now and then...
...will make other friends in your four years in Cambridge, and no, it's not worth it to push unwanted friendships. Try to sow the seeds for a few close relationships, but don't declare yourself a social misfit if you don't fall in love immediately. Don't kid yourself that you have to soak up the week for its intrinsic significance; if you're bored of something, walk away--except the required stuff. Relax, test the waters, acquire a taste for coffee and sherry...
Lance Morrow's Essay on revenge [May 12] radiates ethical sensitivity, insight and common sense. Thank God for a voice of reason in the midst of all the rhetoric calling for massive retaliation -an act that surely would sow the seeds of yet other crises conceived in revenge. Firmness, yes; vengeance...
...cast sagged. But both Henry Higgins (Hollander) and Eliza Doolittle (Tompsett) turn in standardized and mediocre performances. Tompsett's voice is low and well-modulated with a slight Southern softening, and though she tries to shrill, her slummy "Garn..." resonates with upper-class tonality. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Only in scenes when Eliza is supposed to be furious with Higgins does Tompsett cast of her placid demeanor, and then she sizzles: her eyes splash cyanide when she seethes, "Just You Wait, 'enry 'iggins." She cannot sustain her fury, however; when Higgins...
...says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet. But you can't make Sills purse from a sow's leer...