Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production manages to muddle through. Stone keeps the staging simple--rightly so since most of the action and movement is in the dialogue--and the show moves along quickly. The costumes and set are appropriately 18th centuryish. Richard Wilbur's excellent verse translation retains the spirit of the original text, which it follows nearly thought by thought...
There were doubts and hints of problems ahead in the words they spoke; yet there was also a true eloquence in their short pleas. Carter had not finished writing his text until a few minutes before the ceremony. His son Jack, who had come up from Georgia the night before, had brought part of an essay on peace by the Rev. Walker L. Knight of Atlanta. The President was so taken with the thoughts that he melded them into his speech ("Peace, like war, is waged"), and then touched off a desperate effort to track down the Rev. Mr. Knight...
...apparently unprecedented action by federal officials yesterday, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) released the full text of a preliminary draft audit recommending the return of $2.5 million "improperly charged" to federal grants at the School of Public Health...
Harvard revealed in a news release Tuesday that the audit recommends the return of $2.5 million and that auditors questioned $15 million in salaries allegedly recorded improperly in the school's accounts. But the University did not release the text of the audit...
Levenson answered--his critics and his question--with a cry of hope found in the text of lectures that were never given...