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...ulama-run al-Azhar University, graduated at the top of his class and rose from subaltern to major in four years. Nasser chose Eweida to organize Egypt's 2,000,000-strong Youth Corps; he did so well that Nasser four years ago gave him the larger chore of setting up an organization to propagate Islam...
...night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott. Abbott has willing and extremely winning helpers. As Ford's wife, constant listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from chore to chore on an imaginary bicycle. As a kind of fledgling adult who married the boss's daughter, works for the boss's lumber company and lives in the boss's house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second in the evening's whoopstakes. Bean moves...
...together the various materials covered during the term. Those pursuing the second line of reasoning rarely mentioned that the experience might be furthered in the examination hall. They depicted review work during reading period as a satisfying--though rigorous--discipline; the actual exam was often described as simply a chore, and certainly not an educational tool...
Hans von Marées began studying art in his teens, first in Berlin and later in Munich. In 1864, at the age of 27, he got a commission from a Munich count to make copies of a number of Italian Renaissance masterpieces. When this chore was done, he stayed in Italy, surrounded by a tiny coterie of friends. He apparently had no interest in fame: the few major exhibitions of his work took place after his death. The new German artists acknowledged him as a master, but his work dropped out of sight again during the Third Reich...
...rest home, where for half a century he has quietly reminisced about the days when things were as they seemed to be. Poets since then, obsessed by various psychiatric worries and the sound words make when dropped at random, have largely ignored poetry's old didactic chore: refining and explaining experience. The occasional poet who addresses man's need to know the lessons poetry alone can teach (Robert Lowell, for example) has seemed remarkably clear-perhaps even brave. Such a poet is Anthony Ostroff, whose first volume is as visionary as it is precise...