Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Society has grown so complicated that there is renewed interest in the possibility of a "science court" that might deal impartially with arcane controversy. It has grown so technical that some lawyers wonder whether ordinary electors can still adequately function as jurors. Says Attorney Gary Ahrens, a professor at the University of Iowa: "Practically nothing is commonsensical any more." Surely the spectacle of the public making decisions in semidarkness is an affront to common sense...
...West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen. Nevertheless, the settlement occurred only...
...brass reside under tight security on the sixth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan. To one side are the offices of the chairman and the president, an area referred to by nervous underlings as "the court of the Borgias." The senior executive offices are on the other side, along a stark corridor lined with a tan carpet. With its plain white office doors and antiseptic ambience, a visitor observed last week, the place has the look of a hospital. "No," replied an NBC executive. "It is more like an insane asylum...
When the nurse removed the bandages from her stomach, Virginia O'Hare, 42, could scarcely believe her eyes. "The stitches weren't even closed. Blood was oozing, and I saw this hole on the left side of my stomach." As she told a Manhattan court, her belly button had been displaced half an inch to the left, and a thick scar wound across her abdomen from thigh to thigh. Her doctor's promise to give her "a nice flat, sexy belly" with a routine operation called a lipectomy, or tummy tuck, had turned into a nightmare...
...tirades against mankind, Beaulieu runs through the Alexandrines and casts caesuras to the winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back and says lovingly to poor, scoldy Alceste, "How boring you are!" while deliciously wriggling her toes, the night belongs to France. Molière and the audience...