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...sorry sight to see the English at their pleasures," observes an Irish Liverpudlian in The Reckoning. Sorrier still it is to see the dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...
...showed me a slender glossy pamphlet on the school. When the library was described, a peculiar emphasis was placed on the wall-to-wallcarpeting, while little was said about research facilities. Turning to the front page which bore the face and words of the college president, I indicated to the interviewer that gracing the shelf behind the president's head and just out of the camera's focus was a set of The Harvard Classics, that six foot shelf of great books collected by President Eliot over fifty years ago. On the cover of this promotional pamphlet were the ".. words...
...they have their own style, difficult to understand and difficult to impute any specific significance. But the impression is powerful. Their idiosyncrasies give glimpses of a deeply complex community. A certain sympathy exists amongst the natives that expresses a psychic life peculiar to themselves...
...satisfy the peculiar requirements of conspiracy statutes,-the grand jury went on to list 22 separate overt acts of conspiracy by the defendants and their coconspirators. Among the alleged acts: a visit to the underground tunnel system "on or about April 1, 1970," by Philip Berrigan and a Baltimore priest defendant, Father Joseph Wenderoth; and a discussion of the tunnel network last September between Wenderoth and an unnamed General Services Administration engineer. In separate counts, the grand jury also accused Philip Berrigan and Marymount Nun Elizabeth McAlister (see box) of illegally smuggling written communications in and out of the federal...
...with Townsend after the war, Borner, the only man left besides the pilot, recalled that "with a last effort I shot at the Hurricane, which was so close I could see the pilot." Townsend bailed out and was picked up by a trawler. He had, nonetheless, according to a peculiar chivalry, got the best of Werner Borner. "What fighter pilot," he writes, "can honestly deny that it is more romantic to be shot down than to shoot others down...