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...Britannicus Racine a dit, "Ma tragedie n'est pas moins la disgrace d'Agrippine que la mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...
...Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities-and harvesting a fortune when...
...would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl it was not so bad because I got used to the kids on the block makeing fun of me, but now I would like to have boy friends like the other girls and go out Saturday nites...
That fallcon I dont heed...
...Sept. 29). Telephone calls poured into the hotel from G.O.P. bigwigs across the nation: some told him to fight, others told him that for the good of the party he must resign. Three hours before his broadcast Nixon sent his advisers away and ordered his telephone cut off. "I dont want to talk to anybody," he snapped as he closed his door...