Word: earl
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...have imagined that the Parthenon would explode in 1687, destroying 14 of its exterior columns, when Turkish gunpowder stored inside it was hit by true-eyed artillery men of the Venetian Republic, firing near by from the Hill of the Muses? Or that in the 19th century, the seventh Earl of Elgin would carry down from the hill pediment statues and one maidenly caryatid, all doomed to sail in ships made of wood to a foreign place not loved by thundering Zeus, the British Museum...
...youngest sibling, Tommy (Dennis Christopher), forms the crux of the conflict. Tommy suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment, and needs a transplant--preferably from within the family--to survive. His only prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good...
Though parts of the play get bogged down, most of the dialogue is incisive and clever. The combination of snappy one-line's from Earl about sex interspersed with old man McMillan's wisdom and expostulations contribute to the crafty exposition and ambiguity that Sibbard weaves throughout the drama. When Jim accuses James and Harry of becoming too uppity, we don't know whether to resent him for destroying his family with pedagogical union philosophy or pity him for living in a world that no longer exists. And, although Earl comes across as little more than an overgrown child...
There are a few signs that state governments, despite their continuing financial woes, understand the important economic role played by their public universities. Democratic Governor Anthony Earl of Wisconsin set aside $1 million in his 1983-85 budget to boost the pay of outstanding professors at the university's 13 campuses. In June, Illinois passed a one-year increase in income, sales and gas taxes, which will provide the Urbana and Chicago campuses with $26.6 million more this year. But for the foreseeable future, public universities will be at the mercy of the political priorities and economic conditions...
Since 1969, Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan have appointed six new U.S. Supreme Court Justices, starting with Warren Burger, in the open hope of reversing the liberalism of the Earl Warren era. So how conservative is the Burger Court? As the Justices last week completed one of their most vigorous terms in the past decade and a half, they seemed to have ruled the question irrelevant. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, after considering the term's work: "They are beyond left or right description and therefore unpredictable." Concurs Professor G. Edward White of the University of Virginia...