Word: crowning
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...father leaves England but returns in 1764 and lingers there until the eve of the Revolution, continually pestering his son about past moneys owed (including repeated references to the cost of a small quantity of Lapsang Souchong tea). A born conciliator, William attempts to mediate between the Crown and the colonies, but even when arrested by revolutionary troops, he refuses to abandon his monarchist beliefs. Benjamin, according to Randall, makes a formal request to the Continental Congress that his son be incarcerated. Then he ignores William's sufferings, including eight months in solitary confinement and the death of his wife...
...close of the war, William returned to England, where he lived on a pension from the Crown. Randall ends his sad, striking account by noting that father and son had only one more tepid meeting, in 1785, although Benjamin lived five years more. The collision, Randall theorizes, was not merely temperamental but genetic. Philosophically, Benjamin the pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin...
...cagers wouldn't be dead, though last season, Princeton opened up with losses to Harvard and Dartmouth, yet went on to cop its 18th Ivy crown...
...Friday, while the big guys are trying to prove they deserve their position as a contender for the league crown and aren't just dark horses, the Classics will take on Suffolk...
JEWEL IN THE CROWN (PBS). With understated urgency, this 14-week series (which runs until March) sketched a sovereign vision of the long, sad twilight of the British raj in India...