Word: noblemen
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...Scott was Princeton's literary poster boy, he couldn't help marveling at "Yale's hard, neat, fascinating brightness." For him, Yale "evoked the memory of a heroic team backed up against its own impassable goal in the crisp November twilight, and later, of half a dozen immaculate noblemen with opera hats and canes standing at the Manhattan Hotel bar. And tangled up with its triumphs and rewards, its struggles and glories, the vision of the inevitable, incomparable girl...
...fast-paced enough for modern Hollywood audiences, but also by fleshing out the full pantheon of psychological contours that make Henry such a complex hero. From the grime to the sublime, Shakepeare's tragedy, with Henry's conscience as the centerpiece, is translated into a visual maelstrom of patriotic noblemen, blood-curdling gore and ruthless bastards. It's foul, grim stuff with a strong dash of realism to make Shakespeare's play a passionate contemporary tale of shuddering wartime horrors and brutality, without sneaking in too many cliched lessons for us mere mortals...
...sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that...
...such lapses are seldom in the compelling microcosm of village life Schiffman so skillfully brings to the screen. From the clothes of the peasants and the noblemen to the scenes of women at work in the fields, the movie succeeds in a realistic reproduction of the time, seen through the lens of the mythical tale which the film chronicles...
...Harvard of 1636 had 12 students--all male--compared to the some 6400 men and women who today call Cambridge's Ivy towers home. "Scholars," more commonly known today as students, were called by their surnames as a general rule--of course, sons of noblemen and knights' eldest sons were exempt from the restriction...