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When Britain's King Edward VII asked a "pretty young lady" to partner him at bridge, she declined, saying sweetly: "I am afraid, Sir, I can't even tell a King from a Knave." Most of Edward's biographers have had the same trouble: none has satisfactorily explained how and why the monarch whom Rudyard Kipling called "a corpulent voluptuary" was also modern Britain's most agile royal diplomat and plenipotentiary. Now, Boston-bred Virginia Cowles has shown that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married...
...were tied- Matured till they glowed with a purplish tint As though there were gems inside. Now grapes were what our adventurer on strained haunches chanced to crave, But because he could not reach the vine He said, "These grapes are sour, I'll leave them for some knave." Better, I think, than an embittered whine...
Even in a day when the traitor has become a headline staple, the name of Benedict Arnold remains the U.S.'s symbol of ultimate treachery. His was the classic sellout, the shocker that reduced a national hero to a despised knave. Yet there are still those ready to defend him as a maligned soldier who was goaded into villainy, and schoolteachers in his home state of Connecticut have complained that it becomes increasingly difficult to present him as a traitor...
...search for security instead of adventure." ¶ Seek maturity, advised Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey, through a "liberating education." In the modern world, "the immature are dismayed with disappointment and they demand answers which promise quick, sure, painless solutions. The immature are sure that only a knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas and scapegoats . . ." ¶ Overspecialization is what worries Hamilton College's (Clinton, N.Y.) Robert Ward McEwen. Specialists tend to get so wrapped up in their own fields that they cannot function effectively as citizens, said...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Mark Stevens in Knave of Hearts...