Word: knights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barrie's play is typically charming. As a vehicle for his irony, he depicted a situation in which an eminently self-satisfied gentleman and knight-elect hires a woman to type up replies to congratulatory letters. She turns out to be his former wife. Richard Smithies plays the pompous Sir Harry, in a loud and brusque manner quite suitable to the part. His secretary Kate is acted by Jo Linch in a style appropriately different from Sir Harry's. She is not animated, but placidly content--almost too serious; yet her benign laughter at him makes her restraint very convincing...
...Vice President's home state there was a growing uproar about his new political position. California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, irrepressible as ever, made the blatant announcement that he will head a favorite son delegation to the Republican National Convention next year if President Eisenhower does not run, even if that means an open fight with Nixon. This was too much for California's Republican Representative Carl Hinshaw, a friend of Nixon, who said that he was appalled at Knight's "amazing antics" and "fantastic pretensions." Roared Hinshaw: "Except in the ambitious dreams...
...Craig and Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen Later, talking to other reporters he dropped Dirksen and Craig and added Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. In both cases the name of Richard Nixon was conspicuous by its absence When a reporter finally asked why Nixon was not on the list. Knight had a sudden afterthought: "Oh sure he should...
...century England, in which Norman rule was still insecure. Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles. Young Thomas managed to acquire both a knight's training and a lawyer's education, a combination which, while he was still in his 30s, had drawn him to the attention of England's brand-new young Norman King, Henry II. Redhaired, red-tempered Harry made Becket his Chancellor. Towering Thomas a Becket impressed...
...clothes, the customs, the pageantry. He reconstructs the dialogue of his characters and reads their thoughts. But somehow he never seems to read their souls. Why did Becket choose martyrdom? In Duggan's view, Becket was goaded to death by a kind of perverse romanticism: as a Norman knight ringed by his enemies, he died to show the English that it was "the Norman custom to stand fast." This mutedly rationalist ending of an otherwise excellent book will fail to satisfy many readers. It shows, once again, what a superb and poetically accurate work is T. S. Eliot...