Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malign publisher, Lambert Le Roux, is the captivating antihero of the piece. By cunning, he takes over both a populist tabloid and a stately, ultraupperbrow daily. The character has been assumed by many people in Britain to be a burlesque of Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Sun and Times of London, as well as the New York Post, Boston Herald and Chicago Sun-Times. There are conspicuous differences: Le Roux is a South African, not an Australian, and he lives in the Surrey countryside, not New York City...
...money, I'd bet that Black students at Harvard (and other colleges, too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism. If the good Lord's willing. I'll meet Timothy Wilkins, Anthony Ball, and Audrey Mischell [three Black student leaders] down the road in 20 years to pick up my winnings...
...recorded in the books of old that fair Scheherazade deflected the murderous intentions of her king and lord, Schahriah, by telling him stories every evening for 1,001 nights. She spun out tales of Aladdin and his magic lamp, of Sinbad's sailing on the seven seas, of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. To titillate his fancy, she also spoke of three girls from Baghdad who danced & naked with a porter. Of a lady who beseeched two men to "pierce me with your rapiers." Of a woman's passion for a monkey, and a bear...
Granted that it would be hard to write a dull account of such a personage, Philip Ziegler, author of biographies of Lord Melbourne and Diana Cooper, offers a remarkably lively and human portrait. His research was authorized by the Mountbatten family, but in this case, he says, the term does not mean that the book was distorted to fit the demands of the survivors. Ziegler's tone is generally admiring but not adulatory, as when he compares Mountbatten with Douglas MacArthur, his fellow Supreme Commander in the Pacific during World War II. The two Supremos were equally and supremely vain...
...Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, granddaughter of the English Queen. Prince Louis, who had switched nationality at 14 to join the English navy, never lost his slight German accent, and in 1914, despite an illustrious naval career, was hounded from his post as First Sea Lord by anti-German public frenzy. Mountbatten, his second son (the family name was anglicized in 1917 at the direction of King George V), never forgot the injustice, and counted his own posting as First Sea Lord in 1954 as a vindication of his father...