Word: clarendon
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...Festival of Light and Song: A Rosebud in June Cocert to traditional songs, arranged for a capolla voices. New England Life Hall, 225 Clarendon St., Boston, 861-0649 Sat. only...
...would be most at home in a uniform, he has taken to draping his 6-ft. 3-in. frame with the occasional plaid sport coat instead of the somber suits of the first trial. Last week, as Corinne Grande, the presiding judge, led jurors on a walking tour of Clarendon Court, the family mansion in Newport and the alleged scene of the crime, Von Bulow strayed over to the kennel to play with the three golden retrievers he has not seen in more than three years. Suddenly he broke down. He quickly removed a paisley pocket-square, dabbed away...
...century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement was an edited and annotated edition of her letters. Largely as a result of these efforts, Eliot has re-emerged whole from the Victorian era, as a novelist and as a woman...
...course, there is pathos in Stubbs' hunting scenes. His portrait of the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong...
...customs officers intercepted them at New York's Kennedy Airport after apparently being alerted by a mole in Rich's organization. At one point, in order to avoid court fines, Rich and Green hastily changed the name of their U.S. subsidiary from Marc Rich International to Clarendon and arranged a secret sale of the company to a shareholder in their Swiss firm...