Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in the history of Pulitzer prizes, a single publisher, John S. Knight, 73, carried off three of them last week. His Detroit Free Press won top prize for local general reporting, the Charlotte Observer's Eugene Gray Payne was named best cartoonist, and Knight himself was cited for editorial writing. It was a day of rare honors for a publisher who has not gone out of his way to seek them...
...between true and substitute fathers, but between two opposed life styles. These characters move in this tangled relation with consistency and conscious purpose. Most of all, his Falstaff is aware from the first that he is fighting a hard, even foredoomed battle for his Prince's love. The fat knight's persistence is that of the secret hero, not the apparent buffoon, and his final rejection is tragic rather than pathetic. Welles's performance, consistently underplayed except in Falstaff's scenes of self-parody or self-dramatization, neatly divides the character's surface and substance...
...second act consists of the Merchant's Tale (in which Wilfrid Bram-bell regularly stops the show with a prenuptial bossanova in a nightshirt), followed by the Wife of Bath's moral story of the overamorous Knight and the witch who turns into a beautiful young girl when she is convinced that he really loves...
...business." Echoed Atlanta Constitution Columnist Ralph McGill: "It will do no good to cry opportunist at Senator Kennedy. He is an opportunist-and he had better be! In politics, opportunism is the name of the game." San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Art Hoppe wrote an allegory in which the Gentle Knight (McCarthy) jousts the old king (L.B J) to a standstill, only to be shouldered aside by the Young Knight (R.F.K.) who has won over the crowd with words not deeds. "But the Gentle Knight was always universally admired-by those who remembered his name. Moral-Admire the brave, the gentle...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shadow Over Elveron, specially made for TV, is a drama of small-town corruption and its devastating effect on the lives of the town's inhabitants. With James Franciscus, Shirley Knight, Leslie Nielsen and Don Ameche...