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...success, though it has not spoiled him, has wrought some changes. He no longer shows up for a meeting with his investment bankers dressed in sports shirt and rumpled slacks...
...character of Richard is the most baffling and complex one Shakespeare wrought before Hamlet. It scares most actors, though its very complexity ("Thus play I in one person many people, and none contented") offers extraordinary latitude of interpretation. The difficulty is to establish a unifying core beneath the many refractory and attitudinized moods on the surface...
...cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel of Geth-semane-fenced off by a wrought-iron grille designed by Spence in the shape of a crown of thorns-is a tiny alcove for private worship...
...culture, for an Atlantic civilization, for the freedom of the mind I offer a toast to the only nation that has waged war but not worshiped it, that has won the greatest power in the world but not sought it, that has wrought the greatest weapon of death but not wished to wield it; and may it inspire men with dreams worthy of its action...
...postwar Europe's many economic miracles, one of the most notable has been wrought by a Paris-based firm improbably known as La Compagnie Françhise Thomson-Houston.* Within barely a decade, Thomson- Houston has not only risen from relative obscurity to the top rank of French industry, but also has succeeded in persuading Frenchmen that its name is as Gallic as De Gaulle. "Thomson sonne bien" (Thomson sounds good) is the company's slogan...