Word: burgesses
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...Guillaume and the other top staffers, who are loyal but scarcely more likable. The you-break-my-neck-I?ll-break-yours pace stirs suspicions that the play is more bustling than profound. I prefer Alan Bennett?s two one-acters, ?An Englishman Abroad? (about Brit superspy Guy Burgess, who fled to Moscow after passing secrets to the Reds) and ?A Question of Attribution? (about Burgess? comrade in duplicity, Anthony Blunt, an art historian who daringly stayed in Britain and became caretaker of ?the Queen?s pictures?) But ?Democracy? certainly provides an intelligently entertaining evening of mistaken-identity, multiple-identity...
Barr, D. W.; Bearcovitch, G.; Beauregard, P. G. T.; Bixler, F. D.; Bodman, E. D.; Boggs, S. T.; Borra, M. J.; Brigham, G.; Brooks, R. A.; Bryan, R. C.; Burgess, D., Jr.; Butler...
Brown University will formally begin its work in mental hygiene when the fall term stants. The work will be done under the medical department, of which Dr. Alexander M. Burgess is head. Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, head of the Butler hospital, will organize the work, and associated with him will be Dr. Charles A. MacDonald of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Paul Ewerhardt...
...script by Anthony Burgess and top Italian filmwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico ("Open City," "The Bicycle Thief," "Big Deal on Madonna Street," "The Leopard") makes clear the legal grounds for killing Jesus. Under Mosaic law, blasphemy ("I'm Yahweh") is a capital crime; under Roman law, calling yourself King of the Jews is treason. The writers' touch is especially careful and coherent in the trial scene. The Sanhedrin is no lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace...
...boundaries of acceptable public speech and behavior are pushed ever outward (nice job, Janet and Justin), it gets harder all the time to find the line between frankness and prurience - especially in young-adult literature. British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young...