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...Shaw's words sing; this cast singsongs, and a woodpecker on a hollow log would have produced a more tuneful score. Richard Kiley's Caesar has faint, weary traces of Shaw's philosopher-king, but Leslie Uggams is a drowned kitten of the Nile without a hint of incipient regality...
...book is filled with comic scenes, acute insights and memorable characters -among them a salesman named Mr. Blue, who will perform 50 push-ups at the drop of a hint. The narrative ramblings, like a drunk's broken-field running, occasionally lose the reader in a muddiness of form. But they are part of the mad scramble that eventually makes Exley the winner his protagonist was so desperate...
...only hint at the enormity of the Houghton's collections. In all, the library contains hundreds of thousands of books and several million manuscripts. "They may or may not have been expensive to acquire," William Bond, curator of the Houghton Library, has written, "but they would be difficult or impossible to replace, their absence from a scholarly library would be unthinkable, and their artistic or historical values are susceptible to attrition through ordinary handling. They constitute the basic raw material and the evidence that must be handed on, intact if possible, from one generation of scholars to all those...
...halt the crimes our government is committing in our names, the response of faculty members in the profession most intimately tied to the war is revealing indeed. They have, of course, expressed their vague, somewhat inarticulate discontent with what is going on "over there." Yet, there is an unmistakable hint of Business As Usual. Throw the CIA out of Harvard? Don't be immature or rash--let's work this out rationally; after all, we want results...
...Magnificently ugly," the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, "deliciously hideous." But in the ugliness of "this great, horse-faced bluestocking," James admitted with some awe, "resides a most powerful beauty . . . and sweetness-a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power...