Word: busybodyness
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Gesualdo is a village-eye view of the drama that fascinated other 19th century novelists, including Balzac: the drama of a society in which the aristocracy is withering, while the middle class and even the peasantry are elbowing their way into the mirrored halls. The book's hero is...
The ailing King of Nepal, Makarajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur, 48, who with a name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he...
Added the Sydney Morning Herald: "If 50 years ago the Germans found it impossible to defeat the spread of Pidgin . . . the problem now facing Australia is insuperable. The simple fact, of course, is that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious...
A few years later, suspected of spying for the British, he deserted his wife and daughter and fled to London. Knighted for his service to King George III, he soon became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the...
Also on the Beacon Hill screen are two J. Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international...