Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Granted that TIME often displays a penchant for catchy alliteration and sometimes assumes the role of debunker. Still, isn't calling the likes of Washington, Franklin and Hamilton "the Mayflower Mafia" [March 12] a little too much...
...lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
...film begins with Nelson returning home after two years in the Mediterranean, heartily sick of the navy and hungry for Emma Hamilton's freewheeling affections. The admiralty hopes that after a few weeks of shore leave, he will be ready to re-engage the pesky French Admiral Villeneuve. Lady Hamilton insists that her feelings must come before the welfare of the Empire. Her wiles prove so alluring that Nelson opts for permanent shore leave at his country estate in Surrey. But then Nelson's Flag Captain Hardy (Michael Jayston) pops up to press Nelson back into service. Villeneuve...
...entered the House of Commons in 1954 and rose through Conservative Party ranks to become a Minister of State for the Home Office, then got the assignment to Bermuda last October. "This man had just come here and hadn't done anything to anybody," said one fisherman in Hamilton. It is the view among Bermudians, both black and white, that Sir Richard was pleasant, outgoing and informal. "The shooting could not have been personal," said M.P. William M. Cox of the United Bermuda Party. "That chap was a Christian gentleman...
Whether there is racial discrimination in Bermuda is debated often in Hamilton, but usually out of earshot of tourists. At the Hoppin' John Restaurant and Bar, where tourists often debate nothing more substantial than whether to order the Portuguese bean soup or the Bermuda fish chowder (both $1.25), locals at the bar try to convince themselves and others that Bermuda is completely tranquil. One white businessman, somewhat loose with liquor, tells a black employee that "for the last ten years the white man has bent over backwards to make Bermuda, black and white, work...