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...last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
...Stoppard, 30, rather thinks they are: "Almost everybody thinks of himself as nobody. A cipher, not even a cog. In that sense, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are everybody. I feel that I am like that." A sense of dislocation and exile comes naturally to him. The son of a Czech doctor, Tom Stoppard was born Tom Straussler. The family moved to Singapore when he was two and his father was killed in World War II. Tom went to school and lived in Darjeeling, Calcutta, Delhi and Lahore before coming to England at the age of nine and taking his stepfather...
...Structure of Command. Each Viet Cong guerrilla is a cog in a complicated, disciplined command structure. At the apex in Hanoi sits Ho Chi Minh and his top political commissar, Le Duan, 59, who handles overall strategy for Ho's revolution. Also in Hanoi is Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, 50, who directs the southward flow of men and supplies. It is to him that COSVN reports. Until he died last month, General Nguyen Chi Thanh commanded COSVN, aided by at least six other...
Look at the beauty of this page. Think. You could be a part of all this beauty--a cog in the giant wheel that is the Harvard CRIMSON. For further information, plus spirited encouragement, come to the introductory comp meeting at 7:30 tonight 14 Plympton...
...pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that is carefully designed to be useless echoes the whimper or many a cog: 'What's the use?" Perhaps Rickey's nonfunctional machines show that out of tiny cogs a mighty concept of harmonious motion may grow, giving art another dimension at which it traditionally could only hint...