Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeper note also, telling of human growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...
...ARTICLE IV...
...Comparative History 88a. He announced there was no mid-year examination, no hour exam, and the thesis was due by November 1st. "Boy," Harold said afterwards, "we've made a find. For the love of Professor Bell don't tell anyone about this course. I may even make Group IV this year; if I did that, the old fellow ought to send me to Bermuda for the reading period." Harold was no more enthusiastic than I: the weekends already seemed longer...
...portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage was one of expediency. But when her private letters were released by her family last year, it was learned that even her husband loved her. "He appears to have suffered deeply," says Peter Quennell, "both from his wife...
...span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen Victoria. Fox-hunting gentry from nearby Virginia and Maryland also found pleasure in a handful of pictures by modern sporting artists...