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Setting the play inside an insane asylum, with the actors as a palsied herd of flustered souls, is the first and most grievous wrong. It is a commonplace of Shakespearean criticism to say that some of the characters in Twelfth Night act so cruel that they seem insane, but that is no license to turn the play into a cut-rate Marat-Sade. To interpret the play that way is to say, "Be calm, audience, real people are nice. You have to be bonkers to be vicious." The audience should not be allowed to rest so easy...
...chase after motorcycles, telephones and bicycles and seek a higher standard of living." They had erred also, said Red Flag, in attacking party cadres and thinking that the Cultural Revolution consisted only of "dismissing people from office," with the result that there was "no leader in a herd of dragons...
...been stolen. He spotted the car below, tailed the thief after he had abandoned it, finally guided the police to him. "There just wasn't any place for him to hide," says Burany. Major Bruce Payne of Los Angeles' KGIL helped police pursue a herd of escaped horses that were galloping through suburban Burbank...
...Johnson for first not raising taxes and now for asking that they be hiked, Fowler accused them of "suffering from an analytical lag that has them currently applying their calipers to conditions of a year ago." He rapped "bank letters notable for consistency if not accuracy." He scoffed at "herd-thinking, Monday-morning quarterbacks," and skeptics who "had nothing to recommend in 1966 except the time-tested cliche of cutting federal spending." He even suggested-on doubtful grounds-that tight money would have continued willy-nilly all last year if a tax hike had been imposed. Gasped one amazed White...
...Harvard track team rode herd on private game preserve -- the Boston area colleges -- in galloping to an easy point victory over second-place Northern in last weekend's Greater Boston set at Tufts...