Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attached was a ten-page legal opinion from Attorney General Brownell, documenting the constitutional principle of the separation of powers-a principle which gives to the executive branch the right to conduct its own business in its own domain without Congress forever peeping over the transom...
...certain of arousing resentment if all students were arbitrarily assigned. His strongest argument against freshman participation in the House Plan, however, was to permit each class to form new friendships and gain a certain unity before being separated into the Houses. On these grounds the Yard, long the domain of seniors, became freshman territory and the all-inclusive term "Yardling" was born...
...Green Glade. As if on cue, the Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire to the Green Glade for the insurance, then, in a strangely selfless about-face, dashes into the flames and loses his life trying to save the girl...
...real ruler of the Empire. Emperors were made and unmade overnight, and an honest free-lance soldier scarcely knew his employer from one battle to the next. Roussel tried desperately to keep on the winning side, and for a time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when, in the blazing Asiatic heat, he was himself defeated by the Turks, his spirit faded. When he was poisoned by a disgruntled court politician, no one was surprised. Matilda did not even weep; she took herself to a nunnery...
...Jane Bowles) takes place on a dreamlike section of the Southern California coast, and contrasts the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the undisputed queen of this domain, is superbly in command from the very start. Like a Freudian Madame Defarge, she knits in purposeful accompaniment to the sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage...