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...Private Citizen. That afternoon Syngman Rhee left the presidential palace for Pear Blossom House, his private residence in Seoul. As his bulletproof Cadillac moved along the two-mile route-at first he had insisted that he wanted to walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down...
Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare's play is a bore in everything except its prickly-pear love story, and this becomes a total delight as played by Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton...
Much Ado About Nothing (by William Shakespeare) has a contemptible hero, a motiveless villain, a tediously improbable main plot. Happily, what academics term the subplot-the prickly-pear romance of Benedick and Beatrice-is one of the most delightful things in all Shakespeare. And it can never have seemed more a delight than when John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton are swapping insults and moving blindfolded toward the altar...
...boil yer 'ead!" Minutes later, in class, the same two children recited Housman's poetry, and their every o was pear-shaped, every a well rounded, every h clearly aspirated. Confided the boy: "We know if we talk nice-I mean, nicely-we'll get better jobs...
...valuable study; the factors of terrain are key determinants in social and political development of the world's peoples. A study of the appropriate geography would seem to be a necessity in the Regional Studies Program; suitable courses would also grace undergraduate programs. Whether flat, spheroid, or pear-shaped, the world could be studied with profit at Harvard...