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Indeed, Beardsley dwelt in quite a new world, a velvet underground tolerated by Victorians in literature and art as long as it wore the air of fantasy. His frontispiece for John Davidson's The Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender of 1895 shows a barely bosomed lady flagellating a middle-sexed supplicant, wielding the most fragile of whips as if it were a fan at high...
...revelation also has its embarrassing side: Gytha's great-grandfather was none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...
...wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Pearl Lang is choreographer and solo dancer of Prayer for a Dark Bird, a ballet based on passages from the Navajo Night Chant. Earl Wild composed the music and Marian Seldes reads the chant...
Finally Foss cracked down: he invalidated a secret draft, ruled a trade illegal that would have sent a couple of disgruntled San Diego stars, Earl Faison and Ernie Ladd, to Houston. When the owners grumbled, he cut them short. The pop-off," he said, "is no longer fashionable in this league...