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Carnovsky's control is never more evident than in Lear's physical senility. The king flings an arm upward to be imperous, but the fingers tremble in the stagelight. A fist shaken in anger seems to swing limply for an eternity as Lear's age vainly fights inertia. The movements are often ungainly or painfully awkward. Carnovsky is never afraid to make Lear look ridiculous...
...this is a government of law not men, and the maintenance of that essential is the difference between our government and tyranny." It is, moreover, what makes a state court vital to U.S. law. "The real danger to law is not that judges may take off onward and upward," says Chief Justice Traynor, "but that all too many of them have long since stopped dead in the tracks of their predecessors...
...Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull has been called the "perfect muscular mesomorph." He is the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, its fastest skater (upward of 23 m.p.h.) and hardest shooter (his lefthanded slap shot rockets toward the net at 118 m.p.h.). Goalies complain that getting in the way of a Bobby Hull shot is "like being slugged with a sledge hammer," and practically everybody agrees with Montreal's Claude Provost that Hull is "the strongest guy in hockey." He even looks mean when he smiles, because he is missing his three front teeth...
...faction wanted to make the honors program smaller and more selective by weeding out those seniors who had little to gain from writing a thesis. Since the Gill Plan was passed by the Faculty in 1961, loosening requirements for honors, the number of honors candidates in History had climbed upward sharply. The year before the Gill Plan went into effect, 53 per cent of History seniors were admitted to the honors program: in 1965-66, that figure had risen to 72 per cent. "A lot of my seniors couldn't handle the thesis and were killing themselves for no reason...
...Consumer prices last year jumped 1.8% , and wholesale prices rose 1.3%, the first rise of any kind since 1959. This is already threatening the nation's remarkable record of price stability. The economy cannot continue its present growth rate at today's productivity level without serious upward pressure on prices...