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...taunt us in the night, Men kill other men at war. Hungry children lying on the floor...
...Geoffrey Crowther became editor, the Economist has attracted talented journalists and first-rate minds. It has rarely taken a far-out position that it has had to retreat from later. It has, in fact, vigorously espoused moderation and often corrected the overcensorious views of other publications. To the common taunt that the Israelis caught the Egyptian air force napping, the Economist replied that it was all but impossible to have guessed the timing of the attack. "Do not let us think that we would have done all that better than the Egyptians...
Anthony Mainionis' Haemon is adequate but somewhat colorless. Marian Hailey manages sufficiently to convey the weak-willed and vacillating Ismene--"infirm of purpose," to use Lady Macbeth's taunt. Antigones are rare, but Ismenes are a dime a dozen. Jane Farnol brings a good deal of warmth to the role of Antigone's devoted and solicitous old nurse. Richard Castellano, Edward Rutney, and Garry Mitchell, dressed in blue uniforms with red stripes, are fine as the three guards, who represent the majority of society; they are part of Creon's "featherheaded rabble." They are hard-drinking, vulgar-tongued, card-playing...
When the heroine cries out, "No, it is not me you seek, but another of my name," she captures the essence of that shy beguiling, no, demanding creature that is woman. We men are silly. When we whip our mistresses or have our hounds taunt them, we think it is we who enjoy this. Not so. It is the wily women (and I have no doubts that Miss Trepan is such a one) who with every shriek twist we men around their little fingers. What vain creatures! How silly we men! How silly women! How silly...
...that lined the motorcade route. On Staten Island, he bellowed at 3,000 partisans that Democratic programs-Medicare, antipoverty, education-had been enacted over the opposition of fearful Republicans. "Afraid, afraid, afraid!" chanted Johnson. "Republicans are afraid of their own shadows and afraid of the shadow of progress"-a taunt that prompted Everett Dirksen, the Senate's Republican leader and Johnson's sometime congressional ally, to wonder: "Is the President bewildered...