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...boasts. By the time he was twelve he was reciting Shakespeare before the bathroom mirror. His dream-then, now and probably for-evermore-was to play Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says. "He hated tyranny and he was anti-authoritarian." Also, he adds, "Cassius was the smartest man in the play...
Harvard hockey captain Bill Horton was raised in Sherwood Park Alberta, a suburb of the provincial capital Edmonton. Leading scorer Bill Hozack was born in Belfast, Ireland, but his family emigrated to Edmonton when he was two years old. Winger Murray Dea is the scion of an old Edmonton hockey clan that has already produced two members...
...endpoint of The Prescott Chronicles is puzzling, the journey there has its compensations. Not as consistently engrossing as the finest historical novels. The Prescott Chronicles does occasionally attain to a plotted intensity. Each section of the book consists of the leavings of one particular family scion (there are, interestingly, no women represented, perhaps because women were not in a position to make the kind of political history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist...
DELAWARE: SCION ON A BUDGET...
Three-term Congressman Pierre ("Pete") Du Pont IV, 41, handily defeated incumbent Democratic Governor Sherman Tribbitt, 53, by a vote of 58% to 42%. Although a millionaire in his own right (he is a scion of Delaware's first family), Du Pont actually had campaign financial troubles: he refused to accept contributions of more than $100 and limited his spending to a modest...