Word: byronic
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While waiting for Leonora, Beard encounters Paola's jealous husband and quarrels over aesthetic theory and race relations, is raped by a group of feminist women (hence the title?) and in the midst of all this chaos, manages to complete a screenplay for a Hollywood musical on Lord Byron, the Shelleys and Frankenstein...
Ridiculous or not, the commission subpoenaed McComb to appear and give a deposition. The judge twice ignored the order. The whole controversy, he says, is "not interesting to me." Superior Court Judge Byron Arnold, 72, called a hearing on the matter, and McComb sent his lawyers but did not show up himself. Arnold thereupon sentenced him to prison for contempt, suspending the sentence only until Nov. 8 so that McComb can appeal...
...analyze humor," said Robert Benchley. If the 180 behavioral scientists who last week attended the world's first International Symposium on Humor at the University of Wales had listened closely, they might have heard a sigh from Benchley's grave. TIME London Correspondent Christopher Byron attended the three-day meeting and sent this report...
...Swords. Into this yeasty confusion Byron injected himself at the request of English philhellenes-as Howarth puts it, a "shrivelled, dyspeptic, doom-ridden little man" of 36, forlornly in love with his page. He had no military experience, but he had equipped himself with gold, scarlet and green uniforms and at least ten swords. He was courted ardently by all of the Greek factions, not because he was a great poet or an English lord, Howarth writes, and certainly not because he seemed to have some notion of leading the Greeks in battle, but because he had brought with...
...Byron died in 1824 of a fever, on a mud flat called Missolonghi, before he could do any fighting but not before most of his treasure had disappeared. His death, otherwise futile, stimulated English interest in the war. Two large bond issues were floated to help the Greeks, the proceeds of which were embezzled in London and stolen in Greece...