Word: byronic
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...plenty to strike with U.S. aid has brought its army up to 132,000 men with good equipment, is increasing its National Guard (to release troops now garrisoning towns and villages) to 50,000. The new Sophoulis policy, if carried out, perhaps would answer the metered rhetoric of Lord Byron, who more than a century ago threw his life and lyrics into the cause of Greek independence...
...Manuick '49, Nora Millard, Radcliffe '48, and Patricia Troxell, Radcliffe '49 will play the three characters in Christopher Fry's "The Phoenix Too Frequent." William Whitehead '60, Grace Tuttle Radcliffe '49, Virginia Carroll, Radcliffe '51, and Joan Rice, Radcliffe '51 have been assigned the roles in Tennessee Williams "Lord Byron's Love Letters...
...plays-one of which makes its American debut on the Agassiz House stage-share twin billing in the spring program lined up by Radcliffe's Idler Players. Patricia Troxell '49, president of the Annex experimental theater group, announced this week that Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter" and Christopher Fay's "Phoenix Too Frequent" will be produced at the Annex next month...
...indeed an honor. J. Edgar Hoover and Byron Price were offered honorary knighthoods by George VI for their wartime services-Hoover as FBI chief, Price as Director of Censorship. Price could now call himself an Honorary Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...least bit peculiar, at that. Germany's Schiller whetted his inspiration by keeping rotten apples in his writing table drawer. Charlotte Brontë often mooned about the house for months without being able to put pen to paper. Milton could write only between October and March; Balzac, Byron, Dostoevsky and Conrad, only at night...