Word: brigand
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...Gaulle, 76, was only 15 years old. Clearly born to the purple, the lad wrote the one-act play, entitled An Unfortunate Encounter, to win a boys' magazine prize for the best playlet in verse. His dream of glory involved the dire meeting of a traveler, a brigand and a gendarme in the forest. After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them is enshrined in the French National Library. The youthful masterpiece lay buried there, but last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of another rat-chewed copy...
...Shavio-Socratic dialogue." But Shaw could preach without becoming soporific. John Cunningham's commanding performance as Don Juan helps prevent the scene in Hell from going entirely limp. And Frank Lucas's portrayal of a civilized, romantic Lucifer is as delightfully incongruous as his depiction of Mendoza, the brigand chief...
...throwback to the last of the Roman legionnaires in Germania. Making love to a local landowner's wife, he is the incarnation of Woden offering himself to the goddess of the forest. Even the shepherd Brace defends is not merely an old reprobate but a kind of Ur-brigand descended from the race of Jacob. As for the fox: Is he a fox? He may be Brace's alter ego. He may even be man himself, close to madness and ready to spread destruction in the world...
...knowing that your magazine, many a time, reaches common men beyond the educated elite in India. The lift boy in my office glanced at the cover photograph on the copy of TIME that I was reading in the elevator, and observed, "That's the shadow of a brigand falling on Nehru's face. We will remove this shadow." He took the magazine and then chanced to see the inside picture of Nehru embracing Chou Enlai, and said in horror: "Ghost of our sinful past! Bury...
...their bloody battle, both Scranton and Dilworth tend to make each other out as the worst sort of political brigand. Yet neither is anything of the sort, and indeed they have much in common. Both have deep family roots in Pennsylvania. Both were born to wealth. Both are highly educated-and their training includes graduate degrees in the hard school of Pennsylvania politics. Finally, both Dilworth and Scranton are deeply concerned about their state's situation...