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...between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters-the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home -have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August and the opening of the play last month, Moriarty has emerged as one of the top young actors...
Somewhere in the vast decentralized entity called Harvard administration, there is an extremely sensitive mechanism which is triggered whenever the University's domain in any particular area is remotely threatened. It is this informal "nervous" system which sounds the warning and provides the adrenaline spurring Harvard to uncommon levels of involvement...
Other technical experts consulted by TIME confirmed that the description of the noise suggested a typical 60-cycle A.C. hum,* which is not uncommon in unprofessional recording...
...some reporters ballooned a friendly gesture into a minor tempest? Deakin's boss, Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Richard Dudman, denied it: "That was uncommon behavior on the part of the President, and it therefore should be reported." But since the original eyewitness reporting had been uncommonly ambivalent, some doubt remained as to just what had happened...
Seizures in the canal are not uncommon: the Cuban and Soviet ships were the 17th and 18th to be impounded this year under the legal theory that the presence of the property confers jurisdiction on the U.S. Zone court. In accordance with admiralty law, such actions can be ordered on behalf of claimants who show an apparent debt of the shipowner. The issue is then formally tried in court. Usually, however, the disputes are conventional commercial squabbles...