Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave, Charlie, his best friend, never knew the man's needs. John Fenn turns in the best performance of his career in the role of the sympathetic and successful neighbor, who could not see Willy's deep lack, the emptiness of which he dreamed most of all. It is Earl Edgerton, in the half-real role of Uncle Ben, who represents this dream. Properly stiff, arrogant, and inhuman, Edgerton conveys the symbolic nature of his part: the power and glory of tangible success, of almost physical conquest, a confusion of real and unreal in Willy's groping mind...
What was his reaction to Nixon's characterization of Chief Justice Earl Warren as "Republican" Chief Justice? "Once a man has passed into the Supreme Court, I would never admit that he . .. had a political designation...
...prevent the higher fees from excluding good students who couldn't afford the increase, Harris advocated expanded financial aid programs. Harris's comments backed the idea for a $400 million Federal scholarship fund and other proposals made in a speech given in Chicago this week by Earl J. McGrath, president of the University of Kansas. McGrath had also noted that a 50 per cent increase in tuitions would bring $1 billion more per year to the nation's schools...
State Representative E. W. Gravelot Jr., one of the Roman Catholic backers of the proposed segregation bill, promptly announced the "we intend to go ahead with it, certainly." Governor-nominee Earl Long (a Baptist) said that he felt that the archbishop was "a little too advanced." Nevertheless, he added, "from a religious standpoint, he is undoubtedly right." The archbishop was undoubtedly also going to have...
With British pluck. Lord Nugent fought back. Fluttering his credentials in a TV interview, he explained that he was in Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal...