Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian writer named Niccoló Machiavelli journeyed to Monaco to gather material for a book by watching the agile Grimaldi rulers in action. Last week the incumbent Grimaldi, Prince Rainier III, could have used a couple of guileful hints from Machiavelli's The Prince in his squabble with France's Charles de Gaulle...
...Colonel. When Fuess retired, the trustees saw that Andover needed even better administration. Trustee James Baxter III, then president of Williams College, had an inspiration. Like hundreds of other historians, Baxter had helped the wartime Army write its combat history. When the huge project began, the scholars were appalled to find themselves under the command of a handsome young Regular Army light-colonel, who looked 18 and was only 30. As it turned out, Colonel John Kemper handled his irregulars so adroitly that Baxter & Co. never forgot his "tact, courage, imagination and rare administrative skill...
...Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a piece of skillful but specious pleading for the British proletariat, ominously suggests that the battles of World War III may be lost on the playing fields of her Majesty's reform schools...
...elders thought Ohio's private Hawken School was just the place for the heir to a $150 million fortune. Endsville, thought the 16-year-old heir, Cyrus Eaton III, grandson of the Industrialist Cyrus Sr. There was no football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls. So Cyrus III took off for Nashville, Tenn., where public West End High School, he heard, has both football and the coeds to go with it. Trying to enroll as a penniless orphan named Seth French, he let it slip that he knew Latin, and before long the jig was up. Said...
...Panaceas. Like any Russian of conscience, he longed to improve miserable conditions in his country, languishing under Czar Alexander III. Chekhov wrote stories about the brutalized existence of the serf and the stagnating intelligentsia. In 1890. he journeyed 10,000 miles to write a report on the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. He built schools for peasants and treated their ills for nothing. But he could not shake off a medical man's distrust of all panaceas. Whether it was Communism, Tolstoy's windy plans for the spiritual regeneration of mankind, or Dostoevsky's wild chiaroscuro Christianity...