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Though beaten on the battlefield, friendless and imprisoned, King Charles stubbornly insisted on his divine right to rule and refused to acknowledge Parliament's supremacy. Cromwell and his Republican supporters were determined that the King should die after an elaborately rigged state trial. After ramming the indictment through Parliament, Cromwell handpicked 59 judges to try the King, and sat among them himself. The prosecutor hectored the royal prisoner, who was not even permitted to defend himself. Roundheads in the gallery shouted: "Execution! Execution!" One of the judges finally leaped to his feet, crying: "Have we hearts of stone...
...than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived to grind his employees under heel turns up in Dolly as Horace Vandergelder (David Burns), the matchmaker's mate-to-be, and announces with refreshing pride that he is "rich, friendless, and mean, which in Yonkers is about...
...Williams' contention that whenever government infringes on civil rights "it begins with the weak and the friendless, or the scorned and the degraded, or the nonconformist and the unorthodox." Of the major civil liberties cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the past decade, most of the defendants "have been accused of murder, rape, arson, narcotics offenses, bootlegging and membership in the Communist Party...
...more important reason for Barak's ouster is that he enjoyed a personal following inside the party, unlike the friendless and ruthless Novotny. Furthermore, Barak was Czechoslovakia's only ranking Red leader untainted by a Stalinist past, and he probably advocated genuine destalinization. Obviously, if real destalinization had swept Czechoslovakia, Novotny-not Barak-would have been the first to fall...
...death of her domineering mother. The classical relationship--outer docility, inner rebelliousness, and subconscious hatred--takes shape in a series of fragmentary flashbacks which also illuminate Josephine's lonely life as an Oxford undergraduate. There are suggestions of an Electra complex and clear indications of sexual naivete and repression. Friendless and loveless, so far Josephine might be only a potential romantic heroine or an interesting, if almost too typical, psychoanalytic case study...