Word: byronic
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...with the pair of them. "Gradually, with the aid of a third bottle of wine and several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin, and Scott Fitzgerald. As to Cassidy himself, he was their squire, polishing their fur-lined boots, posting their last letters and wiping their names off the blackboard when they didn't come back...
...pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson Laird, the consortium's spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "We won't know if there is a single drop of oil until we actually drill for it. But based on the topographical configurations that we have found and the nature of the sediments, we are extremely optimistic...
...that anyone could see through. As the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, whose affairs with Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington enlivened England a century and a half ago, Actress Sarah Miles wears a dress of pure gossamer in her new movie Lamb. "One way or another," she says, "I've been naked in just about all my films-by now I've got a veteran pair of breasts. But I'm still not comfortable flashing them around. Although they seem well received." Sarah's husband, Robert Bolt, writer-director of Lamb, was more detached...
...FORTHCOMING OPERA "LORD BYRON" (to be given its world premiere in April by Manhattan's Juilliard School): "The world is full of orchestration operas-everything down to and including the kitchen stove, and then the singers have to yelp above it. Mine is a singing opera. I like the words and rather wanted them heard. Byron is the hero and the villain both. Byron slept with everybody around. He was, don't forget it, a lord, a millionaire, a genius and a beauty. And with all that, he had to misbehave every day to cut himself down...
...liberal, activist Warren majority has now shrunk to three: Justices William Brennan Jr., 65: Thurgood Marshall, 63; and William O. Douglas, 73. Holding four seats, the conservative Nixon Justices will also be a minority, with the balance of power exercised in the middle by Potter Stewart, 56, and Byron White, 54. But the bench will have been heavily tipped to the right by the Nixon bloc. It is now virtually a Nixon Court...