Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb plays both knight and servant in I, Don Quixote, a modern version of Cervantes' classic...
...Around. Being poor no more, Bob Ruark can and does travel where he likes, maintains a house in London and two in Spain, is an ilustrisimo Knight Commander of Spain's Order of Civil Merit. Not the least of the Knight's luxuries is a former sergeant-major in the British army named Alan Ritchie, who serves him as secretary, listens to his plots develop, and transcribes Ruark's massive manuscripts...
ALMOST a century ago a Belgian knight named Fritz Mayer van den Bergh began collecting art objects. He concentrated on Northern Renaissance examples, amassed some 1,000 pieces of high quality before his death in 1901. To hold the collection as a memorial, his mother founded the Mayer van den Bergh Museum. Tucked away in Antwerp's banking district and unchanged in 55 years, the museum is open every day except Monday in the summertime, and on even-numbered days all winter, charges only 5 francs (10?) admission. Yet the number of visitors annually is under...
Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost Anybody Else,.and in this novel his paradoxical mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity, and the artist's task...