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...this royal scenario seemed at last to have wound itself up; the kings, if not the captains, had departed, and their courts dispersed, with an occasional sometime highness or excellency making his way to Hollywood in the hope that expertise in matters like ceremonial and uniforms might secure him a job in the studios...
...four subjects gives a good cross-section of the psychological dilemmas facing the patriots (though one may question his selection of Otis, whose periodic bouts with insanity made it rather difficult to know what he was thinking), and the author makes a convincing case for the parental rejection scenario...
...seeing a revolving-door kind of system where there's no fine, no sentence, no slap on the wrist." Lamont and other honest policemen are aware that some fellow officers, not to mention high-standing community members, may be making big money from cocaine. The scenario of a defense attorney being paid off in cocaine and a judge being a dealer? Lamont nods. "The corruptibility factor is there. The money is there to be made...
...being expelled twice and never graduating from Harvard, these early successes lend credibility to his ideas. The 85-year-old Fuller succeeds primarily be perceiving the world and mankind in large terms: he defines the universe as the "omni-interaccommodative, nonsimultaneous, and only partially overlapping, omni-intertransforming. self-regenerating scenario...
...characters were barely in place when the familiar scenario began to unravel. Instead of retiring quietly, Prem, also a general, and the army's cornmander in chief, escaped to the garrison city of Korat, 150 miles northeast of Bang kok. There, with the backing of the immensely popular King Bhumibol Adulyadej, he rallied his forces and skillfully set about isolating San and his fellow conspirators. "Only those who are bund are with the opposition," Prem declared in a radio broadcast from his temporary head quarters. "Almost all the army is in my hands, and the King is with...