Word: nye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Profs. Dershowitz, Nye, Haar and Katz--May Senate committees give consent and eclats...
Three Government professors, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Samuel P. Huntington, and Graham T. Allison '62, are now serving as consultants for Carter's transition team, but none will confess to interest in--or expectations of receiving--government jobs...
...Nye's counterfeit turns out to be exactly what it should be: grossly indelicate, boozily funny, unstoppable as a belch or a rush of sack to the kidneys. To say that it goes on being boozy and indelicate too long is to say, no doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion...
...battle, well, Hotspur might not really have been dead. Why take chances? The worst libel of honest Falstaff occurs in Henry VI, Part I, a play written earlier than the Prince Hal histories and probably only partly by Shakespeare; here "Sir John Fastolfe" disgraces himself on the battlefield. Nye's Falstaff makes the incident honorable if not heroic...
Soul! "I should say that my soul was about the size of Spain, though in a better spiritual condition ..." Hey, Mistress Quickly! Another round for Robert Nye and his fat friend...