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...Martyr. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Richard II is a journey of inner transformation. As Prince Hal moves from tavern playboy to patriot King, so Richard moves from self-indulgent fop to martyr. Chamberlain accomplishes this with masterly gradations. His early Richard walks with a kind of saucy flippancy. When he banishes Bolingbroke and Mowbray from the realm, it is not so much with imperial ire as petulant impatience. He has already gained in gravity when he later drops to the ground and fondles the soil of England: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hands, Though...
...answer such polite undergraduate questions as, "I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or 15 years from now?" Elsewhere, Trillin tags along on the exhibit and lecture circuit with 375-lb. Paul Anderson, the "world's strongest man," a Christian patriot who pulls off the highway now and then to write anti-Communist verse...
This year, for the first time, the freshman football team did not play in the Stadium. Harvard athletic officials said at the time that the move was made in order to allow the field to recover from the double duty of varsity and Patriot games...
...Charles de Gaulle: statesman, soldier, writer; above all, a great patriot and human being...
SerVaas, now president of Curtis, points out that the Post still gets so much mail that three employees are needed to take care of it; he believes that it "never really died in the minds of the public." The new-old Post, he says, "will be a patriotic magazine, as I consider Benjamin Franklin* to have been a patriot. We will advocate change by evolution...