Word: iii
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James Steven Watson, M.A., is a 46-year-old historian from Christ Church, Oxford, who has come to Harvard for the summer to teach modern English history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Behind him is a 600-page study of the reign of George III (Vol. XII of the Oxford History of England series). Ahead of him, he hopes, is the biography of Charles James Fox ("I am devoted...
Sticking his right hand under his tuxedo jacket behind his back is not enough to create the malevolent, hunchbacked Richard III. Nor has he the brio for Henry V. In Macbeth's "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'were well/It were done quickly," etc., he follows the idiotic example of Kemble, Macready and Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends...
...with some 100 Congressmen, and Ambassador George Kennan flew home from his post in Belgrade to make a pitch to the House. The Administration even got key help from Pennsylvania's champion anti-Communist Francis Walter, who argued: "For years one of the major deterrents to World War III has been the resistance of enslaved people to their Communist masters. Help Moscow break that resistance, and you increase the potentialities of Communist aggression." The House still insisted on being recorded against such aid, but it finally gave the President, by a vote of 277-4, the power to waive...
...richest man in Denmark-and reputedly one of the richest in the world-is shy, strapping A. P. (for Arnold Peter) Mø11er, who, at 85, still likes to sail himself to work in his sloop Karama III. In his storybook rise from merchant's apprentice, Mø11er (pronounced roughly Mew-lehr) has always believed in one precept besides making money: do something for Denmark. Mostly, what he has done for Denmark is to invest in it. With the profits earned abroad by his 85-ship Maersk Line and his 25,000-acre Tanganyika sugar plantation...
...trade, including psychiatry and statistical research. Most famous is the 19th century Scotsman Daniel Dunglas Home, who set up a salon in Paris where he produced table rappings, voices, visions, and even floated out the window, and numbered among his fascinated visitors Trollope, Hawthorne, the Brownings, Napoleon III and his Empress Eugénie. With proper scientific detachment, Dingwall refuses to say whether these supernatural doings were real or imaginary; evidence points both ways. No such doubts trouble Author Lethbridge, an archaeologist who has often seen ghosts and has even sketched a few in his book. Ghosts are plentiful...