Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Knight of Wall Street, whose bid of 207 for U.S Steel temporarily halted the Crach of 1929? What did he call a "perfect institution...
...format was to become a permanent structure. Even today, Benny's influence still echoes around the channels. Jack's wisecracking girl friend -and offstage wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum...
...Rhetoric and Oratory and a poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without scaling down the epic. His battlefield seems bleaker-black and white rather than Pope technicolor. His protagonists are closer to Beowulf than to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The blank-verse lines may flex to a Homeric simile, but in combat they are as direct as a dagger thrust. What Fitzgerald has done is provide all that a late-20th century translator and his audience can share on the subject of war -only the most austere emotions...
...TEMPTING to see in Whitney's personal failings some reflection of the failings of the system he represented in the press and in the public mind. Whitney's image as the White Knight of American capitalism was so ingrained that members of the SEC seriously considered letting him replace the embezzled money quietly and resign, in order to preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last...
Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque...