Word: knighting
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...could play drama or comedy on the screen, but it was on the stage that he made his legend. Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud delivered storied portrayals of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Richard II, and triumphed as a director as well. He was mentor, friend and equal to his fellow knight, Sir Alec Guinness...
Looking for amazing? Indiana's Bobby Knight was fired after 29 years of behaving toward his players like Stalin in a bad mood. Bobby's loyalists pleaded for Indiana to give him one more chance, so that he could actually kill someone. Believe it or not: vast numbers of citizens are reading a new translation of Beowulf; Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Woody Allen were not in the news every day; the homeless were not in the news, either, giving rise to speculation that they must have disappeared. Also, Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court Justice...
...MYLES BRAND In May, the Indiana University president put a "zero tolerance" policy over the head of hoops coach Bob Knight. In September, Brand ended the bully's 29-year I.U. career after reports said Knight grabbed and swore at a student who had dissed...
Eventually Knight did go, fired in September after another incident in which he laid a hand on a student. The firing led to a near riot on campus, but Sperber was forced out long before then. "I see dead bodies," said a message on a website that named Sperber and other Knight critics. "I got a call at home from someone who said if I didn't shut my mouth, he was going to shut it for me," Sperber says. On campus one day, a student offered to rearrange his smile. "But the most disturbing thing was finding...
...Sperber took this semester off, and only after Knight's firing did he consider a return. "I felt silenced, and I missed teaching," he says. After 29 years at I.U., he'll teach two "stealth courses," as he calls them. Students won't know in advance that their teacher is the anti-Knight. "Murray's a good guy and a great teacher," says student Heather Dinich, 21, who welcomes his return...