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CAMINO REAL, Tennessee Williams' allegory of our times as viewed in a timeless dream, boasts such memorable characters as Casanova, Camille, Byron and Kilroy. At the Provincetown Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass...
That possibility has worried Venetians, and those who love Venice, for centuries. Lord Byron foresaw a day when the city's "marble walls are level with the waters." Built on a group of mud islands and reinforced only by ancient wooden piles and wattles, Venice has always been a sinking city. In recent years, however, in addition to losing ground at an ever faster rate, it has been attacked by the pestilence of modern cities-air pollution. As a result, the city and its treasures are now in greater danger than ever before...
...dissenting opinion, Justices Potter Stewart, Byron White and John Marshall Harlan complained that the decision furnishes few guidelines for selecting the type of crime that would be considered "service-connected." The ruling, they argued, puts the law into a "demoralizing state of uncertainty." The three Justices contended that the military has the right to purge criminals whose attitudes might corrupt others in the ranks. "The soldier who acts the part of Mr. Hyde while on leave," they said, "is at best a precarious Dr. Jekyll when back on duty...
Colburn finished behind New York University's Byron Dyce and 'Villanova's Frank Murphy, who waged a heated battle for first place in the event. Dyce was the eventual winner, and his time of 1:47.4 was the fastest ever in the East...
...English Romantics were inclined to place their bet on dreams. Essayist Charles Lamb wrote of a friend who used to measure aspiring poets by their answers to his question: "Young man, what sort of dreams have you?" Byron's poem The Dream took on aspects of a Romantic manifesto...