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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell, all the while lashing out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
Died. Major General John F. C. Fuller, 87, British military historian, a World War I tankman who fought in vain to sell his colleagues on panzer-style tactics, went into waspish retirement in 1933, and at various times embraced fascism, condemned Allied air raids in World War II, and sneered that Ike was "not a highly educated soldier," though he remained highly regarded for such studies as his On Future Warfare; of pneumonia; in Falmouth, England...
...each was prepared to carry on night and day if pushed. But nobody was pushing. Majority Leader Mansfield refused to hold marathon sessions, saw to it that the Senate always recessed in time for dinner, and once even in time for lunch-all of which moved Oregon's waspish Wayne Morse to complain that the Senate was keeping "banker's hours...
...bond issues sold badly; the European Coal and Steel Community has postponed a $20 million issue in view of market uncertainty as has the Transalpine Pipeline Co.; the Swiss bond market has sagged 10% in recent months as investors have sold European holdings to buy American. Europeans are increasingly waspish about the disproportionate share of their limited market that U.S. bonds already hold...