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...pressed hard on red-faced, 78-year-old Labor Lord Addison to agree to a delay and a conference. His object: to reform the House of Lords the Tory way. A conference would probably result in a compromise: cutting the present membership by more than half, allowing hereditary peers to elect parliamentary representatives from their own ranks (as Scottish peers do), balancing the reduced hereditary element by creating more Laborite peers...
...Some Ordinary Blokes." Lord Addison conferred with Labor's Herbert Morrison. Labor would agree to a conference, on condition that it would not affect the progress of the bill to clip the Lords' powers. That was not satisfactory to the Tory Lords. Debate ranged wide. Lord Lindsay of Birker, who is also the learned Master of Oxford's Balliol College, needled the aristocrats. What the House of Lords needed, he suggested, was "some ordinary blokes...
...their small, gilded chamber at Westminster early last week, peers heard a favorite Socialist boast repeated. White-haired Viscount Addison, Laborite leader of the House of Lords, exulted: "It is a remarkable fact-indeed it is an unprecedented fact-that this government, with their large majority in the House of Commons, after two and a half years have not lost a single by-election...
...editors' aim was to sweep the modern world "with the same searching gaze which the Spectator turned on manners of 1 8th Century England." Pacific Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year...
...turn of the 18th century, according to Morison, there is evidence of students "actually having performed a stage play," but it was not until the 1760s that the situation began to get out of control, thereby necessitating the Corporation's severe pronouncement of 1762. Productions such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...