Word: byronism
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...LORD BYRON, poet...
...have other sorts of travelers: Robert Byron, after his time at Eton and Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point—randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...
...Saint-Exupéry and Byron are very different from Christopher Isherwood, whose stay in Berlin seems to have been motivated chiefly, as one person put it, by the ready supply of German boys. Weimar was the place to be in the early interwar years, and Isherwood was there, writing a gloriously camp version of the rise of Nazism...
...Within a week outraged Democrats and unions were holding press conferences of their own. "We were unaware of the negotiations. If they had meetings we were not notified," Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, told a virtually identical group of Capitol Hill reporters. "Those that talk about being able to run this through the Congress like a hot knife through butter, I'm sorry, that's not the way it's going to be. We're going to push and insist on a new approach...
...Myanmar was unanimously approved by the Cambridge City Council yesterday. Burmese students from Harvard and two other colleges joined four Cambridge residents at last night’s weekly meeting to urge the Council to pass the resolution. The bill, H. 2729, was first introduced by State Rep. Byron D. Rushing (D-Boston) in January. It would also support shareholder resolutions calling on corporations to promote democracy in Myanmar. “As a leader in human rights and democracy, Massachusetts has an obligation to support the people of Burma,” a senior using the pseudonym Shanti Maug...