Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compounds the interest; reading it is like screening other people's dreams--at once intriguing and familiar. For Sylvia Plath's need to write in her notebook when she is "at wits' end, in a cul-de- sac. Never when I am happy" is not unique to depressed poets. Lord Byron notes, "Clock strikes--going out to make love. Somewhat perilous, but not disagreeable." Boswell reports, "I awaked at noon, with a severe head-ach. I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot . . ." These and scores of similar entries defy decades and space. They...
...England. After studying law, he positioned himself at court as personal secretary to Henry, as much through nattering verse and charm at the dinner table as by administrative competence. As he moved up in office-royal councillor, Undertreasurer of the Exchequer, speaker for the House of Commons and finally Lord Chancellor-he seemed docile and circumspect...
Thomas' martyrdom was an irony More himself might have appreciated. Henry VIII, in Marius' view a frightened, defensive monarch, already tired of the mistress he was determined to marry, faced in his Lord Chancellor a holy man manque, with whip and hair shut, whose secret passion had always been to become a monk...
NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington hailed the budget increase as a "considerable effort." It was news that Washington badly wanted to hear. In the event of a Soviet attack on the allies, the U.S. would send six Army divisions and 1,100 tactical fighter aircraft to their aid; the question has been whether such action would do any good. U.S. military analysts fear that planes ferried to airbases in West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands would be easily destroyed because of the lack of bombproof aircraft shelters. Western Europe's munition dumps have been inadequately stocked...
...describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy and transcendence. Here was an inter-galactic Colombian drug war, with a stash of celestial...