Word: byronical
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...Theater unaccountably deemed inferior and therefore failed to show in the U.S. For those who love the Bellamys, the broadcast of the lost eight is a signal cultural event, almost as important as if someone were to discover the missing fragments of the Satyricon or the diary of Lord Byron...
...much uncommon sense in the observation that once E.M. Forster was identified as a homosexual, a uni versal writer was diminished to the status of "a propaganda counter in a winless war. 'We've got Whitman, and I'm pretty sure we've got Byron, and we're still working on the big case, Shakespeare,' say the Gays. And the Straights reply by hanging on to Shakespeare's Dark Lady for dear life and giving up Whitman altogether...
...increased their total of seats in state legislatures from 703 to 761 and doubled their numbers in lieutenant governorships to six. In Maryland, women won half of the state's eight seats in Congress: Republican Marjorie Holt and Democrats Gladys Spellman and Barbara Mikulski were reelected, while Democrat Beverly Byron won the seat vacated by the death of her husband. Other notable women candidates last week included...
Melvin Perkins, 55, the Republican hobo of Baltimore's skid row, has run for office many times before, so no one paid much heed when he was the only candidate to qualify on the ballot against an immensely popular Democratic Congressman, Goodloe Byron. Then Byron, 49, died while running along the Potomac River, and his widow took his place on the ballot. Perkins' chances of winning were never good, but they got even worse when he was tossed in jail for assaulting a woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen...
...educated and fiercely proud, he remained determinedly aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...