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...enjoyed the tribute to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother [APPRECIATION, April 8]. Thank you for your effort on behalf of this beautiful grandmother who reminds me of mine, in looks as well as demeanor--though not in the number of jewels or horses she owned! BEN F. MARTIN Holly Springs, Miss...
...Queen Mum exemplified devotion and loyalty to her country in difficult times. Her life has been a guiding light. HILARY PINTO Vanier...
...perform the Greeks, you can still perform Shakespeare. And Marivaux is on a very high level in France. He’s not quite as well known in America, but in Europe, everybody knows this play. The female character in it is so modern. She’s a queen who has ultimate power in her little kingdom, and she’s not afraid to use any tool at her disposal to achieve her ends. She basically says, ‘If I have to be a man, I’ll be a man. If I have...
...when such temperance is sadly lacking at English universities.) But there are other times when I feel like strangling the “funny” guy in my entryway who asks what I think the “Brits” will do without “the Queen Mum” or like stabbing my Oxford friend who wants to know whether “all Americans really claim to have seen UFOs.” Often the mere presence of someone from another country makes people ask questions so facile and puerile that they would never...
...dead son. Cared for mostly by his teacher, Mr. Mustachio, the perpetually darling, slightly androgynous little robot boy uses his powers of flight, super strength and rear-mounted machine guns to fight evil robots. The longest of the three self-contained stories, "The Hot Dog Corps," involves a queen whose robot spaceship pilots shoot down any rocket headed for the moon. Filled with the mischievous mayhem that boys love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme of friendship and goodwill. Drawn with a whimsical simplicity based heavily on the Disney cartoons, Tezuka...