I love Professor Beard very deeply, as I love anyone and everyone – the doctors and scientists who take us through the programmes devoted to medical advances being a particularly rich field – who is so clearly, so comfortably and so thoroughly in command of their subject or specialism that they have nothing left to prove.
But in precisely the sort of exhilarating paradox on which the theater thrives, I've never seen a Blanche so fully in command of the contradictions that drive the heroine of Tennessee Williams's play.
I remember attending an exhibit at MOMA, about thirty years ago, and having a sudden revelation in the presence of a painting by Picasso: that he painted not the way he wanted a painting to look but, as if in a documentary of his inner vision, the way the world actually looked to him, and that this was so of all artists in command of their art.
Some people take great pride in their command of language, so when the language shifts, they're no longer in command of it and they become resentful.
By nightfall Sunday, the rebels were in command of the square, the scene of so many manic, forced declarations of fealty to Colonel Qaddafi.
By nightfall, the rebels were in command of the square, the scene of so many manic, forced declarations of fealty to Colonel Qaddafi.
Once in command of Avranches, VIII Corps then secured the bridges at Pontaubault, and in doing so, broke out of the Cotentin Peninsula and into Brittany.
I'm in command of my necessaries.
You be in command of yours".
