Word: byronic
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...princes, representatives of the Pope, the Sultan of Turkey and numerous special interest groups (including the Jews of Frankfurt). They were accompanied by an extravagant collection of wives, mistresses and servants, and so much time was spent at entertainments that the Congress never shed its image as, in Lord Byron's phrase, "that base pageant...
...Guards. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, Speer explained the background in which the book was written, stressing that his confinement in Spandau had a greater personal meaning for him than his important role in Nazi Germany. One reason is that the Nazi era lasted only twelve years, while Speer remained jailed in Spandau until 1966-a full 20 years. Originally built to house about 600 convicts, the mammoth, rust-red prison was requisitioned after World War II by the Allies for the sole purpose of locking up Speer and six other senior Nazi officials...
Because he was never very close to his fellow inmates ("No one trusted anyone else"), Speer sought some kind of relationship with the guards. "They were not vicious," he told TIME's Byron. "Except for the Russians, they tended to be lax about minor infractions of the rules. At first, prison rules were aimed at keeping us in the dark regarding political developments. If it were not for the guards, for instance, we would never have known that the Russians had blockaded Berlin and that an airlift was under way." Later, however, the prisoners were allowed to read newspapers...
...much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices found major sections of Burger's version sadly wanting, and Byron White and Potter Stewart prepared new language. TIME has learned that when the two confronted Burger with their suggested changes, the Chief Justice went to Blackmun for expected support-and did not get it. Whereupon Burger backed down, and the White-Stewart version was used, albeit under the Chief...
...Byron's view prevailed. By tearing out passages from diaries and journals and keeping the lid on their less savory memories, Shelley's intimates created a marzipan myth to be consumed in Victorian parlors. The poet, so the story went, was only nominally a seducer, de facto bigamist and flaming revolutionary. In reality he was, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "an ineffectual angel...