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...could yield to Parliament or thunder at it, and gain his ends by either device. His lack of vindictiveness was astonishing; of the calumnies of Lord Shaftesbury, the Whig leader who had hoped to execute him, the King remarked merely that "at doomsday we shall see whose arse is blackest." The monarch died in 1685, surrounded at first by musicians and concubines, and at the end by clerics and physicians. He was succeeded by his brother, James II, whom Nell called "dismal Jimmy," and of whom Charles had observed that his mistresses were so ugly that his priest...
...oath. His address, entitled "The Twilight of Democracy," drew immediate reaction both in the Boston press and from President Conant. "Teaching in an institution like Harvard must not become a state function; if it does, education is doomed to stagnation and the twilight of democracy will deepen into blackest night," Mather stated...
...open annoyance of many jurists, first prize in painting went to Spain's Modesto Cuixart, 33, cousin but proclaimed rival of Spain's Antonio Tapies (TIME, March 16). Cuixart makes elegant mudpies, the blackest and heaviest in the notably gloomy Spanish exposition. Black may always be in fashion, especially in Spain. Yet the spirit of Goya is clearly not with Cuixart. He makes despair chic...
...Gallup offered little cheer to Ike's Republican Party. Asked to name the party of their choice, 59% of those questioned picked the Democrats, 41% the Republicans. By contrast, the G.O.P. had polled 43.5% of the vote in gloomy 1958, 41.5% in 1936, the blackest year in the party's history...
...case involved the Harte-Hanks Newspaper Group (eight newspapers in Texas), which in 1954 bought the daily Banner in Greenville (pop. 20,000), a northeast Texas county seat boasting the "blackest soil, whitest people." Harte-Hanks increased the size of the paper and its advertising staff, but could not show a profit. Meantime, the moneymaking, family-owned Greenville Herald, faced with this tougher competition, fell into the red. In 1956 the Herald, weakened by losses, was forced to sell out to Harte-Hanks. By the next year the merged Herald-Banner (circ. 8,694) was making money...