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...this Shylock is more or less domesticated, he is not quite tamed. His fashionable top hat comes off to reveal a yarmulke on his head. His upper-class speech breaks down into a breathy canine laugh or into red-faced rages of snarling and spitting. Once, after his humiliation in court, his dignity falls away completely and he lapses offstage into a piercing primeval wail of lamentation. Disappointingly to some, this is as near as Olivier comes in this characterization to performing at full classical pitch. Nor does he modulate to softer emotions. He tears angrily through the "Hath...
...Hague. They boast that they have never had to vote on a decision. Jan Brouwer, the chairman, is a tall, heavily built Dutchman with a taste for modern art, and the vice chairman is David Barran, whose monocle and Savile Row tailoring make him seem the archetypal upper-class Englishman. Most of the managing directors are bilingual, and some speak three or four languages. The only American, Monroe ("Monty") Spaght, who is also chairman of the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co., notes: "When some companies call themselves multinational, I say the hell with it. They haven't finished...
...three moved to the Weatherman organization after S.D.S. split up in a factional dispute in 1969. All had several scrapes with the law. Last year the girls were among 26 women who "raided" a Pittsburgh high school. By then, their upper-class breeding was wearing thin; some of the girls ran through the corridors barebreasted, yelling "Jail-break!" The girls were also arrested during the violent Weatherman clashes with police in Chicago's Grant Park last October. But their class privileges paid off: the women were released in $40,000 bail. They are supposed to go on trial this...
Obviously, one of the obstacles to early detection of heroin addiction in a teen-ager is the unwillingness of middle-or upper-class parents to acknowledge the idea that their son or daughter is seriously hooked on heroin. The customary last resorts in personal crisis are undependable. Parents tend to trust doctors implicitly, for example. But one 17-year-old girl from New York's suburban Westchester County arrived in a New York hospital for a checkup with fresh needle marks all over her arm. "The doctors kidded me about it," she says. "They said, 'Oh, oh, we know what...
Each House would elect a representative to one of the three other committees. There would be three upper-class representatives on the Committee on Education, two on the Rights Committee, and five on the Committee on Students and the Community. There are ten Houses...