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Bush, George W. • potential criminal investigation of • taunting of by audience for Obama inauguration • unfond farewell is offered by Harper's Magazine...
...visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth though she was an empress no longer...
When he resigned as U.S. vice-consul in Toronto last fall, Frank Tinker bade Canada an unfond farewell. "I'm leaving Canada and I'm glad," Tinker wrote in a blunt article in Maclean's magazine. "It's going to be a great relief...
...Antigone of Anouilh, unswayed by religion, unfond of her brother, and in love with life, can only be accounted a fanatical idealist-a character into whom Katharine Cornell finds it almost impossible to breathe life. On the other hand, Anouilh's Creon is at once the least Sophoclean and the most successful person in the play. He is an astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics...
...certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...
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