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This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why...
Roger N. Pierce, a head resident in Barnard Hall, declared himself very much in favor of the proposed liberalization. "Starting with the premise that mature people should be allowed freedom," he said, "one has to decide what are valid reasons for limiting that freedom.
Barry Goldwater is big these days, too. In San Francisco's hungry i, for example, Comedian Mark Russell tells his audiences about the movie version of The Conscience of a Conservative: "It's going to be a silent, sponsored by Pierce-Arrow." Then, of course, there's...
In your article on the ambassadors, the "Dress Circular" instructing American representatives abroad to use "the simple costume of an American citizen" was not decreed by Andrew Jackson in 1853 (he died in 1845) but by William Marcy, Secretary of State to Franklin Pierce.
Last week, as the stock market staged the year-end rally that has occurred every December since 1897, employees of U.S. brokerage firms had good reason to stage a rally themselves-around their Christmas trees. The nation's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., gave 7...