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...murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just a joyride, but Tuesday leads him on to even more glorious heights: together, they gun down her henna-rinsed virago of a mother (Beverly Garland) and light out for Mexico...
...imperialistic interests against possible Russian expansion. Two of England's leading generals, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, were quarrelsome brothers-in-law. A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted. As thousands of Russian soldiers watched in disbelief, some 700 men of Hussars, Lancers and Dragoons -the Light Brigade-charged...
...within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible. I do not deny that we love and respect most those professors who make the glorious attempt to reach other people in a profound way; but what distinguishes them is a quality not essential to a professor or an administrator, a businessman or a craftsman--to be humane is not a virtue restricted to any segment of men. There are more great professors here than...
...World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much of the city...
Hail to thee, glorious scion of the Hellenic land...