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...bald man, he resembles the thin man's Mr. Clean only in looks. Unlike some skippers, he does not impose a curfew on his young crew, nor does he lead them in calisthenics. Even so, he had his charges outhustling the more experienced Valiant hands on nearly every tack. "Though we aren't No. 2 any more," says Picker, "we still have to try harder to uphold the tradition of Intrepid...
...American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello in Stratford, Conn., perpetuates a tradition in which the play and its hero shrink with each successive revival. Moses Gunn and his director Michael Kahn proceed along the familiar tack that Othello is good, loving, noble, trusting and innocent until jealousy and grief tear him asunder. Gunn conveys all of these qualities admirably. His stage presence is commanding and his line delivery persuasive, though it is somewhat mannered when he elongates single words for emphasis...
...girl with such a ???lly be so desirable?" he asks in the poem ???, Loewinsohn andc," then dubs the Lady. "Venus ???usseldorf, curvilinear, oviform," For an epi??? to the last group of poems in the book ???ok of Ayres," after Thomas Campion). he ???unces. "I need to take a new tack./ and sit on it." ??? success of this kind of poem depends entirely ??? quality of the surprise. Sometimes the sur??? is a little...
Laurson chose top in the second stanza and managed to keep Faller on the mat throughout the period. Faller unwisely decided on a similar tack in the final period, and time became a vital factor...
...instance, are likely to object strongly to the new church's recognition of women clergy, while the Disciples of Christ, who have traditionally opposed a strong central authority, will probably want more congregational autonomy. But grass-roots criticism from the member churches themselves may take a different tack. Theological conservatives are likely to be far more disturbed by the proposal's secularistic definition of the church's mission than by the structural problems. As the drafters put it: "The affirmation of Christ's Lordship over creation, including the secular city, must be related to the real...