Word: duked
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Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who teaches at both Harvard and Duke, is still more emphatic in summing up the need: "Reading, writing and arithmetic. That's what we've got to start with, and all that implies, at every level. If people can't use good, strong language, they can't think clearly, and if they haven't been trained to use good, strong language, they become vulnerable to all the junk that comes their way. They should be taught philosophy, moral philosophy and theology. They ought to be asked to think about moral issues, especially...
Smooth of pen, wicked of wit, and controversial of strip, Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has skewered politics and society for twelve years. And there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall...
...American woman he loved "in the way dogs have of loving the feet at which they lie," from their first meeting in the lobby of the Imperial Shanghai Hotel in 1924. Both were infatuated with the same male. Their two-decade odyssey ends in the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor, glazed with alcohol, dressing a model of his mother each morning in fresh clothes, lives out the last degraded years of exile...
Findley's reweaving of history is so canny that it is sometimes difficult to tell where the tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal...
...cabal called "Penelope." Its conspirators are a strange admixture of the notorious and celebrated, including Perfumer François Côty, Sir Alan Paisley, Field Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never yet been worn by anyone." She replies without hesitation: "How long...