Word: deeded
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Poets and playwrights and novelists have always processed political events into entertainments and legends. Television now hastens reality into art with a sort of Irish efficiency: when an Irish Republican Army terrorist-hero blows up a British army truck in midafternoon, the deed will probably be a song in the pubs that night. Such ready glorification is one reason that no peaceful settlement has been found. Sitcom writers have developed similar reflexes. Topicality, however, ages a script rapidly. It strands an episode in time, and makes reruns seem alienated, quaint...
...that the royal family would set by example the moral tone for the nation and the empire. Collective good conduct became a justification for authority and privilege. Duty, self-sacrifice, fidelity in service to the public weal and in Christian marriage were all to be embodied in word and deed by the monarch and her clan...
...branch, this one on Wenceslas Square, where the "velvet revolution" transpired in November 1989. The new McDonald's is in sight of the spot where Jan Palach set himself on fire for Czechoslovak freedom in 1969, the spot where Havel laid flowers in 1989 and was arrested for the deed. Now a deadpan sword swallower resembling Leonid Brezhnev draws a crowd of American children, and punkers with spiked Mohawk haircuts wander the medieval lanes...
Despite the official secrecy that cloaked the deed, an archive of accounts by both participants and eyewitnesses survived. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second...
Suduiko said yesterday that MIT had found a new site for the shelter in Central Square. The university plans to refurbish this building and deed it to the city in exchange for streets near...