Word: regimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual life, James Joyce's Ulysses* has long been a touchstone-and a sacred object. Anyone admitting dislike or incomprehension of it is almost automatically drummed out of any self-respecting literary regiment. Now, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, one of the best critics on either side of the Atlan tic has reassessed Ulysses. Says Britain's V. S. Pritchett...
While rioters paused to debate the new issue, Nehru watched an official parade celebrating the sixth anniversary of the Indian republic. Down Ruler's Way came lumbering elephants with blue foreheads and flowers painted on their hindquarters, bearded Sikhs in bright turbans, Madras Regiment soldiers behind their famed fifes and drums, felt-hatted Gurkhas. At Nehru's side was his good friend Lady Mountbatten, wife of the last British Viceroy. Afterwards Nehru told a group of young army trainees: "Redistribution of states is only, after all, for administrative convenience. There is no finality . . . a decision can be changed...
Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring...
...Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm promptly proposed the German Duke of Urach as a suitable...
...addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia of Hemingway...