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Flliot L. Richardson '41's decision last week to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas may offer Massachusetts something it rarely sees, the possibility of a strong Republican bid for the seat...
...floors of Houghton Library are reserved for specific collections-like the Emily Dickinson and John Keats Rooms, the Richardson Room of exquisite bookbindings, and the Hyde collection of Samuel Johnson's works...
Slight of build, with an eminently squinchy face, McKellen is not an overwhelmingly noble presence. His Shakespearean range is probably closer to Ralph Richardson's than Olivier's. But he has wit, a mime's command of body language, and the antic courage of an impressionist. There is wonderful calculation in the way he flings himself about the stage and trots through history giving persuasive impersonations of predecessors like Richard Burbage and David Garrick, as well as such critics as Pepys and Shaw...
...winter solstice will pass practically unnoticed amid the Christmas rush. But to the homeless, the change of seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...
Does Sir Peter ever have any fun? On the Diaries' evidence, a little. Though Hall is frustrated by Olivier's "Machiavellian love of intrigue," he delights in John Gielgud's fussy modesty, Ralph Richardson's engaging bluster, Albert Finney's eagerness to tackle any role. He enjoys the artistic adventure of rehearsing: "It's really why I do this job." But there is another pleasure: confiding to the diary-and now to any Briton with ?12.95 to spend-his colleagues' amorous intrigues (but rarely his own). In 1975 he reports that Pinter...