Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghastly & Glorious. As an epic, the legend of the Bruce ranks among the noblest achievements of medieval romance; as history, it is miserably beset with errors. Recent researches suggest that the history of the Scottish war of independence must be considerably rewritten, and in this volume a Scottish professor has manfully attempted the task. He summarily deflates the theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly...
...wild laird they called "King Hob"-the royal yokel. The armies met at Bannockburn, a village before Stirling Castle. In the opening skirmish, King Robert was caught alone in an open strath, by an English knight who leveled his lance and charged in for the kill. As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle...
...much the same course. It was fought on a site of the canny Scot's selection: a dry field bordered on two sides by sodden carseland. The front was so narrow that the English could not bring up archers or engines. It was the English cavalry against the Scottish schiltrom (shield ring), and for the first time in British history the schiltrom carried...
From Dealer to Driver. The son of a Scottish immigrant, Reid was a Santo Domingo auto dealer with no political following-which may explain why he got the job. Once in office, he decided that the time had come "to act, not talk," if anyone was going to save the country from economic ruin and another dictatorship. To get room to operate, he accepted resignations from the other members of the triumvirate, filled one vacancy with a friend, left the other unfilled. To keep any one general from assuming too much power for too long, he set up a rotating...
Married. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 82, crusty old man of Scottish letters (96 biographies, plays, essays and novels, among them Tight Little Island); and Lilian Macsween, 46, spinster sister of his late wife; he for the third time; in Edinburgh...