Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England...
...think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
...duty to enjoy" a secular life. He enjoyed it so much that even a case of "that distemper with which Venus plagues her votaries"-the first of a dozen or more attacks of gonorrhea he suffered in his 20s-failed to revive his religious convictions. When a Scottish nobleman introduced him to the Duke of York, Boswell decided that London was the life...
...novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark, all without breathing very hard. Well, almost. His Scots accent wavers a bit under stress: "Damned if he'll get away with it, Will...
...also an exercise in bold geometry. The dormitory lies in plan as three interconnected lozenges. Inside its concrete and native-slate-sided battlements, it resembles a happy dungeon whose lofty towers admit a deluge of daylight. For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms. The results made one student gasp, "Every angle hits you," and privacy seekers are delighted. Said one, "I can't believe there are 137 other people in this building with...