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Tasty Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant...
...from Southern California, and it looks for the best without regard for class or race. This year's senior president, for example, was a Negro. The result is a student body less feverishly cerebral than Reed's, less sophisticated than Swarthmore's, less social than Stanford's-but one marked by a pervasive sense of concern...
...tape measure, and determined precisely the altitude of the letters that spelled his name. When 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra (now in production) is finally released, Richard Burton will be listed above Rex Harrison. If, however, Harrison should be knighted before then, his name will go above Burton's-but only in Great Britain. Elizabeth Taylor, needless to say, will top them both. But in the past she has made concessions for private reasons. In Butterfield 8, she permitted Eddie Fisher almost equal billing, perhaps to prove that she does not wear all the pants in the Fisher...
...milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle as Joe's-but Sam had never had any sulfa and, very probably, would have lost the calf...
...hubbub of strayed revellers he heard one voice say distinctly: "D'you know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unseeing eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice...