Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never was a Hamlet less pigeon-livered; yet never was there one who was less "the glass of fashion and the mold of form." Williamson's Hamlet is a drop out from Wittenberg with a Scottish-bred accent that scatters aitches like dandruff and tortures vowels until they scream. Still, the so-familiar lines emerge with a rasping edgy immediacy...
...Politics of Experience is the attempt of Ronald Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist, "to document some forms of our contemporary violation of ourselves." The widespread interest the book has generated since it reached the American market in September suggest that Laing succeeds in his endeavor, that many have found in it clues to their alienation...
...chasing a new breed of bank robbers, mostly ex-soldiers like the Younger Brothers of Missouri, and pouncing on cheating streetcar conductors in the East-Pinkerton agents were operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became...
Perhaps the most bizarre episode of all, though, concerns Ruskin's equivocal six-year marriage to a pretty Scottish lass named Erne Gray. It began in 1848 with mutual vows of temporary chastity; she was barely 20 and ailing, he wanted to travel before being burdened with children. It ended in 1854 with ferocious bitterness and an annulment that left Erne-still a virgin at 26-free to marry Ruskin's protege, Painter John Everett Millais...
...baptized Elizabeth. As he grew up, Elizabeth became more and more convinced that he was, in fact, male. "It was hell," he recalled in a 1952 interview, "especially when I was forced to attend the debutante balls during my first London season." By the time he left his Scottish home to study medicine, he had cropped his hair and begun to wear male clothing. But officially, it was as a woman that he took his degree and went into general practice in Scotland. At age 40, he decided he had had enough. He reregistered his birth, as male...