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...Would any historian wish to exchange the worst traits of the Twentieth Century for the scandalous doings of the Eighteenth century? Bradford's history of the Pilgrim Fathers shows us within ten years after the Mayflower cast anchor at Plymouth such vices as are unknown to civilization today...
Abraham Lincoln once made a list of the books that had influenced him. Mostly he went for the heavy hitters--Plutarch, the Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress--but one of his choices sticks out for its total obscurity: James Riley's An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, a memoir by a luckless sea captain who was shipwrecked on the Saharan coast of Africa, where unspeakably horrible things happened to him. Dean King, the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian (of Master and Commander fame), stumbled on a copy of Riley's memoir...
...approach within 100 paces. On the soundtrack, the heavenly choir trills away earnestly. The Passion segment (44 mins.) couldn't be less so. Connoisseurs of intentional camp treasure "TGSET" as the movie where John Wayne, as a Roman centurion, glowers and says, "Truly this was the Son of God." Pilgrim...
Rosenthal also offered two Medicare-managed care plans: Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan’s First Seniority Program and Tufts Health Plan’s Secure Horizons, both of which would require users to abandon UHS in favor of a new primary health provider...
...Gradually, the Playmate minutiae accrued: the surrounding photos and brief biographies of the subjects, the Party Jokes page to close the section. The first star Playmate was Janet Pilgrim (July and December 55), a Playboy employee whose name stayed on the masthead for a decade or so as readers? liaison. She cued the notion of the Playmate as hometown houri: not a showgirl or call girl but the girl next door (or next-office), the succulent embodiment of ordinary Americana. The job of posing for a girlie magazine was now not a shame for a young woman but a kind...