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Juan Carlos, who is considerably more conservative than his father, would not last more than three months, Ridruejo contends. Don Carlos, however, a potentially constitutional monarch, would be able to deal with the Left, Ridruejo believes, and thereby retain power long enough to bring Spain into the modern European community...
...escape him become hairless in the same process? Why should the ape-man evolve into a two-legged animal as a result of trying to run faster while the fleetest members of the animal kingdom remained quadrupeds? The answer is found in the fact that evolution is an absolute monarch to men like this author...
...Other leading firms are Monarch Press, Study Master and Cliff's Notes, which is currently being sued by Random House and the heirs of William Faulkner on the claim that summarizing his works violates copyright laws...
Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
...accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, thus turning the graveyard scene into a grisly essay on the meaning of death. The players' dumb show is omitted; instead, Hamlet lures his stepfather into mouthing the incriminating lines himself, until the drunken monarch suddenly stops in horror-struck realization of what he has said. The mindless bloodshed of the final scenes is emphasized by having the players settle their arguments in a chilling game of Russian roulette...