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Sticking his right hand under his tuxedo jacket behind his back is not enough to create the malevolent, hunchbacked Richard III. Nor has he the brio for Henry V. In Macbeth's "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'were well/It were done quickly," etc., he follows the idiotic example of Kemble, Macready and Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends...
...opposed by most Republican and many Democratic Senators, the Kennedy Administration's King-Anderson bill to provide hospital care for the aged under social security has disappeared from view. In its place last week appeared a bipartisan compromise disguised in the legislative equivalent of a newly donned jacket and a different style of hairsplitting. But though the disguise failed to alarm King-Anderson's friends, it also failed to fool its opponents-even if the clothes were a bit more conservative...
...smoking jacket and a blue mood, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, watched the national election returns as they flashed on the TV screen in his private railway car in Prince Albert, Sask. After eight weeks of flameless campaigning, his private estimate was that his Conservative Party would win 140 seats-not as many as the record 203 seats he held going into the election, but enough to give him a bare majority in the 265-seat House of Commons. He wound up with only 118 seats, and as a minority government would have to accept outside support...
...reversed, but you have to have damn good reason for reversing him." At finance committee meetings, there is no small talk-just "important gossip about such things as the economic atmosphere." Periodically, to support a thesis or answer a question, Donner whips out of his inside jacket pocket a handy little argument settler. Most auto executives have modest ones, but Donner's comes in a specially made 2-in.-thick leather case. It is jammed with scores of photostatted cards, about the size of a playing card. containing in miniature all the latest vital statistics...
Karandas, meanwhile, was striding past the Fegg. He seemed to have gathered quite a momentum, and his little legs chugged hurriedly through it, Bloomlike. "I will show up him--him with the jacket like Ali Ahmed's. . . . My trousers are in danger, and as a direct social consequence, so must be I... I am eagle, flying to a quaint perch in Weld Hall... I had better try to step." A red light leomed in front of the Indian. He had arrived at Broadway. He could not stop. Two MTA busses and a University truck were bearing down or Karandas...