Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this production. Sir John has been played often enough as an ale-soaked halfwit, his besottedness hesitantly offered as an excuse for his license; Mr. Seltzer is well clear of this feeble nonsense. Between magnificent gusts and wheezes, he calculates with serene deliberation each of the fat knight's lies, each of his aphorisms and fancies, and the result is to show that not only Mr. Seltzer but Falstaff too is always creating the character of Falstaff...
Lazarillo moves on to other masters, among them one of the most appealing creatures of the Spanish imagination, a knight-aberrant who is obviously a direct literary ancestor of Don Quixote. The dear fellow is a physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks...
Speaking at the Congressional Club in Washington, Australian Ambassador Sir Howard Beale, 64, sought to explain the inexplicable-British titles: "British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore is a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, neither of whom ever existed. I am a Knight Commander of the British Empire, which has ceased to exist. And our two recent colleagues from Jamaica and Trinidad are Knights Bachelor, with wives and families." Concluded Sir Howard: "Such an illogical people-no wonder the French didn't want them in the Common Market...
Première (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Keir Dullea and Shirley Knight in an adaptation of Richard P. Brickner's first novel, The Broken Year...
That is "a philosophy of totalitarianism utterly foreign to our American precepts," argued Lee Hills, executive editor of the five-paper Knight chain. Said Publisher Gene Robb of the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union: "A government can successfully lie no more than once to its people. Thereafter, everything it says and does becomes suspect." Roughest of all was the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff, who suggested that veteran Newsman Sylvester, 61 (37 years with the Newark News), ought to resign...