Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the Hearst papers, including the San Francisco Examiner, may return to the Republican fold. John Knight's seven newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer, have not yet endorsed a candidate, but it seems likely that they will support Nixon, even though they have been rather dovish on the war. Knight disclosed his personal feelings in a recent column: "Somehow we preferred the old Hubert - dedicated, faithful and true-to the newly contrived candidate who now wears a coat of many colors...
...victories in Dixie by telling Southerners through Agnew they can get what Wallace promises, but without Wallace. Nixon's lieutenants deny the charge, but one of them demonstrates how the two men are viewed in the Nixon camp: "Nixon is going to do the big thing. He's the knight, and this guy is the foot soldier...
...champion phrasemaker of his day. He observed: "I wish there would not be a peasant so poor in all my realm who would not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." Henry was also the three-centuries-removed ghostwriter for James G. Elaine's "plumed knight." He even coined the term le Grand Dessein, which was appropriated as F.D.R.'s Great Design and later as J.F.K.'s Grand Design...
Attractive Models. If Burt does not quite seem like the boy next door, look again. He is a member of a new and rapidly growing group of drug users that the Rev. Melvin L. Knight Jr. calls "Billy-the-Kid drug heroes." Knight, who is pastor of St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Presbyterian Church in Palos Verdes, observes: "These guys seem to be real straight arrows. They're intelligent, good-looking. Good at sports, popular around school. They have all the characteristics of the old-style campus hero. But they also take and perhaps push drugs: marijuana...
...Precedent. Within those limits, the production had its virtues. Aided by Karl Boehm's lively and sensitive conducting, Wolfgang gave intimate poignancy to the often-slighted scene in which the knight, Von Stolzing. works out his song for the mastersinger's competition. At the end, Wolfgang toned down the eulogy to German art by the cobbler, Hans Sachs (at which German audiences used to rise reverently to their feet), and closed the opera on Sachs's more characteristic note of skepticism and resignation: "Folly, all is folly...