Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forsooth, if I never read another, that film review of The Black Knight by your Camelot correspondent [TIME, Nov. 8] is the finest piece of nonsense I have ever laid eyes on. If that doesn't stop these medieval cowboy films then nothing will...
...bathed each picture in suche a light That, though he be no "parfait gentil knight...
...presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy is like a reluctant knight going out to engage the dragon. His armor is on awry and he drives out his horse with no flash of enthusiasm, but somehow in the end the dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments...
Here and there in his earliest work, the teen-age poet experiments with the echoes of Byron and Coleridge that gave grace to such later ethereal nonsense as the White Knight's song in Through the Looking-Glass-a minor classic if read through half-closed eyes in a willing suspension of common sense. In Clara, young Carroll writes...
...more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...