Word: crowning
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Although the parallel between the Tsarist and 'Soviet regimes is not explicitly stated in his ambitious new book, Russia Under the Old Regime. Pipes wants this conclusion to emerge as an historical inevitability. In arid prose he tells the story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when...
Hicks had a difficult upbringing. His father was a Crown official in Pennsylvania who lost his fortune after the British defeat. His mother died before he was two. Hicks was consigned to the care of a Quaker farmer named Twining (one of his best paintings is an evocation in retrospect of the old Twining farm). At 13 he was apprenticed to a coachmaker: a coarse life in which he was, as he later lamented, "introduced by lechers and debauchees into the worst of company and places." One Sunday morning, suffering from a bad hangover, he blundered into a Quaker meetinghouse...
COME OUT TO PLAY by ALEX COMFORT 182 pages. Crown...
Somewhere on the road to Omaha, however, the Crimson baseball team got sidetracked. Some would point to the decision by the Administrative Board in early spring not to allow the baseball team to participate in any playoffs even should Harvard win the Eastern Baseball League crown, as the beginning of the downfall...
...days a week, 365 days a year. But to me the day just wouldn't seem complete without a trip to the barn in the morning." The Derby victory, added to Foolish Pleasure's other conquests over his peers, makes him a convincing contender for the Triple Crown...