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Miss Brodie assures her girls that they are the "crème de la crème" and she tries to turn them into a vicarious wilderness of mirrors refracting all facets of her thwarted ego. One student is to become an intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the...
"It is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely," said Julius Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies...
All King Berenger learns in his last 90 minutes is an existential truism: one dies alone, with no quarter given and no help available. The only person who begs the king to cling to life is his succulently attractive second wife, young Queen Marie (Patricia Conolly). The pompous court physician...
From that point, the novel jumps forward 18 years to Semple's recovery and his release from the state asylum. Shortly afterwards, he has a chance meeting with Hunt. In the inevitable, violent conclusion, Hunt dies a fitting voyeur's death by defenestration.
Moral & Misanthrope. The new songs are shapely and graceful, but their simplicity is deceptive. Several of them are suffused with religious feeling-a sorrowing series of meditations on the Christian ethic, outlined in a language that is close to simplistic. One, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, is...