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...provided us with Shakespeare's first great female role. But I suspect even the dramatist himself had some doubts about his ability to handle tragedy at this stage of his career, for he lay the genre aside for some years and turned his efforts to penning a slew of histories and comedies. By no means would I wish to do without the play; it contains plenty of things to cherish, in addition to serving as the material for three masterpieces far greater than the play itself: Berlioz's "dramatic symphony," Prokofiev's banst and Bernstein's West Side Story, which...
...Hammer led the National League in home runs four times and won the batting championship three times. He was the league leader in a slew of categories such as RBIs, total runs and total bases many times, but still he did not gain the recognition that he deserved. This could be for many reasons but it is probably because of his quiet demeanor and the fact that he played his career in Milwaukee and Atlanta, neither of which are large megalopian centers and neither abounding in sports writers...
...rites set down in the Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses of the captive Hebrews, which had been daubed with the blood of a lamb. At the end of the feast, the ancient hope would be toasted anew as the celebrants pledged reunion in the land of their fathers...
Except for a few new faces in the javelin competition, the squad expects to go with most of the old workhorses. Once again the fieldmen will be looking to pick up a slew of points. ICCA and all Ivy selections Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree will be up to their old jumping tricks, taking the Ivies by storm. Opposing coaches will have their hands filled trying to figure out where Vanderpool-Wallace will strike next this spring. Stowell expects the durable Bahaman to fill in at long jump triple jump, and sprint medley, with an occasional high jump stint...
Judge Sirica is our modern David who slew Goliath Nixon by steadfastly insisting that our country's laws be upheld and respected in the Anglo-American tradition, rather than be flexed and molded to meet the needs of "FixIt Nixon...