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...Chair man Mao and then was made pub lic through Premier Chou in his speech at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1974. At the same time, we have always considered that Chairman Mao was not beyond fault. We cannot demand of any great personage that he be faultless. To demand that is not in keeping with the thoughts of Marx or of Mao Tse-tung himself. Then there are many things that Chairman Mao could not foresee during his lifetime because of the limitations of the condi tions then existing. Now there are new conditions...
...late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts...
Shunning any rhetorical flourishes to dramatize his plan, Carter rushed through its main proposals in low-key style, putting a number of members of Congress to sleep. The multiple facts and figures were somewhat numbing. The delivery was smooth and nearly faultless (he twice said "miles per hour" when he meant "miles per gallon") but far short of inspiring. Making his energy program work, Carter said, "will demand the best of us, our vision, our dedication, our courage and our sense of common purpose." The President told his audience he expected little applause?and he was not disappointed...
...Thoreau's cellmate, and John Newport '78, as Thoreau's brother, put on fine performances as well. But the nature of the play demands that the portrayal of Thoreau be executed with perfection-and though Landiss is very good in some scenes, his acting is far from faultless...
...beautiful sweeping extensions and faultless turns that always marked her dancing were brilliant, but there was, in addition, an increased elevation and a new sense of freedom. In a pas de deaux with Ted Kivitt, she stepped majestically on point, released his hand and poised in an arabesque that lingered on and on, as if there were magnets concealed in her toe shoes...