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...person system in Mem Hall. To the end he was a man of principle, refusing to share power with another monitor, but state-of-the-art proctoring at last had passed him by, Exams will be much more calm and controlled in the future without Mr. Test's iron grip on the microphone, but they'll also be a lot less...
...coach, Harry Parker can only sit and watch and wait, helpless on the sidelines. For the individual oarsmen, they can only grip their oar a little tighter, push their pain tolerance a little higher, and cock their ear a little closer to the cox screaming signals in front of them. And hope, hope that somehow all their training and hard work will help them jell together as a unit, enough to outdistance the other crews...
Lear, at "four score and upward," requires no such exploits, but in this production he must ride a horse, swing heavy swords, be bucketed with 900 gal. of water, go shirtless, eviscerate and eat a rabbit. With the grip of mortality shortening every Olivier breath, each gesture can seem heroic, each line he utters a precious gift from the depleting stock of his time. But there are reasons beyond enlightened sentimentality to treasure this Lear. To support him Olivier has assembled an actors' aristocracy: Diana Rigg and Dorothy Tutin as Lear's treacherous daughters Regan and Goneril, Colin...
...instance, has opposed shareholder resolutions such as the one last year calling on IBM to halt its South Africa operations. It ignored that the nature of the computer company's operations--providing some hardware for the South African security apparatus--would surely seem more to strengthen apartheid's grip on the country than to contribute to the welfare of its Black workers. Last year the Corporation tried to water down its policy even more by ending its automatic ban on investing in banks that make loans to the South African government. Only student protest and a unanimous ACSR recommendation opposing...
...baseball is a delicate matter. Pitchers, especially, grip the edges of their careers like the seams of the baseball, and dig in their fingernails. For example Gaylord Perry, 44, of Seattle, whose next victory will be his 308th, bad news for Charles ("Old Hoss") Radbourn, about to be bumped to 13th after 91 years. Jim Kaat, 44, of the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, is approaching his 25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with...