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...actor Brian Bedford. Bedford delivered his lines rapidly, as was done in Shakespeare's day, so that the running-time was only three hours and a half. He acted, as Shaw advocated, on the lines, rather than between the lines, as the most famous American Hamlet, John Barrymore, was wont to do. (Uncut productions are exceedingly rare. In Britain, Frank Benson did it first, in 1899. Gielgud and Guinness acted the full text in the decade before World War II. New York first saw an uncut Hamlet in 1938, with the much overrated Maurice Evans. And 25 years ago Harvard...
...industrial engineering department: "We will need people who can understand the whole complex electronic and mechanical machinery of these new manufacturing cells, and who can intervene quickly to repair them." Otherwise, warns Melman, downtime from sophisticated electronics gear that suddenly goes on the blink-as it is wont to do-will paralyze factories. Indeed, the new technology is liable to place unprecedented demands on corporations for retraining at all levels, including management. That by itself could prove a more expensive and time-consuming undertaking than proponents of CAD/CAM would like to admit...
...addition to wagon congestion on market day, there was one other overriding problem, and that was dragons. Predictably merciless when they terrorized a village--as was their occasional wont--dragons became much more unpleasant when pestered by heroes with long spears. One such confrontation is depicted in Matthew Robbins' Dragonslayer, the story of a kid who wears burlap clothing but makes good anyway...
...main difference between tonight's contest and those first eight--a 91-68 loss to Texas December 29 being the most recent--is that this one is for keeps. It's an Ivy League contest--the first of the year--and as McLaughlin is wont to say, "Tuesday is the start of the real season...
...Hampshire votes tomorrow, and half-a-hundred trends, meanings, insights and revelations will be gleaned from the wisdom that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded...