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...year-old Charles was a faint carbon copy of his public school self. Ryder attends "Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same time. Details and dialogue are loosely transplanted from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee...
...happened, Brandeis was a closet autocrat, and Frankfurter was far from monkish in his ambitions. In this startling volume, Bruce Allen Murphy, an assistant professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, reveals that two of the nation's most revered Justices simultaneously practiced law and politics. Previously unpublished documents show that during his service on the Supreme Court (1916-39), Brandeis paid his protege Frankfurter, then a Harvard law professor, some $50,000 to act as a political lieutenant. Frankfurter's mission: to promote social activist goals that might have been viewed as inappropriate for Brandeis himself...
...After four days of dillydallying, the shaky government coalition led by Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, 71, decided to resign, as accusations of government indecisiveness continued to mount. But then, in a by-now characteristic move for Seni, the Prime Minister announced that he would stay on after all. The monkish former marshal continued to walk the streets, rice bowl in hand, asking for alms and keeping his political plans, whatever they might be, to himself...
...form of the word appears in Act I, Scene 3, and it recurs like the tolling of a melancholy bell. Duke Vincentio (William Hutt) has decided to cede his authority for a while to his austere deputy, the rectitudinous Angelo (Brian Bedford). As the lordly duke dons monkish attire (he will seem to be a friar), he implies that he is testing Angelo: "Hence shall we see,/ If power change purpose, what our seemers be." Initially, Angelo acts as severely as we would expect. He condemns Claudio (Stephen Macht) to be executed for the crime of fornication. When Claudio...
...have changed in the brief span of one year. While brothers and sisters are struggling through some serious negotiations at Brown University, The Harvard Crimson is spending its time defending the lackadaisical minority recruitment effort ("We can't find anybody"), and the Administrative Board is laboring over a monkish set of Noise Rules that could snuff out any "disturbances during the day that would hamper study or contemplation...