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...confute your second-sight; We shall be slaves and you a knight; These things must come; but I divine They 'II come not in your day, or mine...
...Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff as a child. He is no opera buffoon, but a laughing knight whether on top of the world or crushed by it. As Ponelle says: "Don't forget that Falstaff is an aristocrat...
...into in part because, as he says, "Harvard really depends on its dean like no other institution I know." Bok emphasizes that policy decisions are tightly bound to his selections of deans; this is true in part because once appointed a dean has total control. "He's like a knight at King Arthur's round table. He can tell the king to go to hell any time he wants," Treasurer Putnam says. The unity of policy and decanal choices is also apparent in Bok's annual reports. His 1973-74 report analyzed the fate of the public policy program...
...Knight Demarest...
From being so poorly understood that a confiscation of "red books" nets The Red and the Black and The Knight of the Red House, but misses Capital. Marxism emerges as the only political philosophy offering hopes of progress. The Student, a young popular leader who organizes the first general strike, comes to symbolize the Communist answer to the Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics...