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Edgar triumphant over Edmund, the evil daughters dead, and Lear and Cordelia about to be rescued, the Apollonian form of tragedy has seemed on the verge of enclosing the Dionysiac turmoil.

While the Lear was still slowing down on its landing roll at DCA, Castillo punched an autodial button on his cellular telephone.

Lear was still slowing down on its landing roll at DCA, Castillo punched an autodial button on his cellular telephone.

Sherlock Holmes and the Famous Five and King Lear and Mickey Mouse and Joseph K and the Venus de Milo and Dick Dastardly and Mutley and Holly Golightly, I was also aware of the John Barleycorn figure turning around to ease my Shadow-flesh through the clutches of a network of story-blades.

When Lear crosses those borders he enters uncharted regions of mind where much madness is divinest sense and the Fool has no business.

For two centuries they fought the Celts, and little by little, Britain, the island of such legendary kings as Lear and such dimly historical ones as Cymbeline, was converted into Anglo-Saxon England.

For example, People for the American Way, founded by Hollywood millionaire Norman Lear, advocates the defeat of school voucher programs, the legalization of gay marriage, and the defeat of the USA Patriot Act.

Lear onto the runway, straightened the nosewheel, and lined up with centerline.

EVERYONE, of course, KNEW that King Lear was one of the greatest plays that had ever been written.

The gleaming sharklike silhouette of the Lear jet formed a backdrop for a tension-charged tableau.

They would be moving about wraithlike, just as you presented Lear in the storm scene.

Mantell as King Lear, another of Genevieve Hamper in The Taming of the Shrew, a telegram of congratulation from Margaret Anglin to the club on its tenth birthday, a printed postcard from Bernard Shaw refusing permission to perform Candida without payment of royalty, and several sets of photographs of past productions.

But the praise that is given to a great Hamlet, or a great Othello, or the infinitely rarer great Lear, is always diminished by the feeling that the chap simply goes on the stage and says what Shakespeare has written for him and draws his sword when the director tells him to.

And Mann, whose balls would ricochet In almost an unholy way (So do baseballers "pitch" to-day) George Lear, that seldom let a bye, And Richard Nyren, grave and gray?

And out of olde bookes, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men lear.