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Richard Marius (the Director of the Expository Writing Program at Harvard) paints a different picture of More than we're used to. The More in keeping with Hans Holbien's 1527 drawing of the man. Holbien's sketch shows a prosperous Tudor gentleman in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and signs of his wealthy. Above More's head hangs a clock dangling ominously. Marius fleshes out the ambiguities and tensions in More's Character at which Holbien hints...
...once, the perfect Southern gentleman and the easygoing good ole boy. Trim, handsome and carefully dressed, he can exude the effortless charm of a man comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...
...strengthen the young student's monarchist tendencies. Moreover, the circumstances of his birth only serve to deepen William's belief in British law. Observes Randall: In 1758, "William Franklin, bastard son of a provincial printer, was called to the English bar . . . In every sense, William had become an English gentleman...
...Gentleman...
...notes. The deluxe photo essay includes family snaps, publicity shots from early movies and candids from heavy romances and long nights out, along with occasional salty observations ("The audience is like a broad-if you're indifferent, endsville"). Rockwell's book will do very nicely until the gentleman in question sits down to talk, not sing, into a mike-or, as he might put it, until the real thing comes along...