Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meirion Darwin was indisputably the greatest golf writer of all time. Reading Darwin, one is transported into the magical pageantry of a bygone era: the enfant terrible Bobby Jones dominated the game and the former caddy Walter Hagen with his thick-skinned eyelids and brillantined hair was lauded as "Sir Walter" by reverential galleries...
...John Steinbeck read the Arthurian legend in the Caxton edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Grappling with the language, he met the tale on its own terms, with few concessions to propriety or adult ideas of logic. His resulting love for the legend prompted him to return to it again and again, digging up the sources and scholars of Malory. Finally, in 1956, he approached Malory with greater daring...
...Gutman report obviously places family concern above class militancy--but the life that slaves made on the sly can now bolster faith in black cultural courage, resilience and craftiness. Exslave Robert Smalls undermined the acuity of "assimilation" theories back in 1863 when he told a white interviewer, "No sir, one life they show the masters and another they...
SPEAKING OF SIR THOMAS More, Samuel Johnson once wrote, "He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced." Saintliness can carry a man only so far, but in the case of Sir Thomas it seems to have carried him far enough: to the post of Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII. More's virtue found an uncongenial home in the Renaissance court, where moral rectitude was hardly a lasting recipe for success. Henry admired him, but these were difficult times; the King's friendships had to take second place to the King's lusts--or more...
...most innovative dramatic device Bolt uses in A Man for All Seasons is his narrator, who, in his various guises, keeps calling attention to our kinship with him. We might want to identify with Sir Thomas, Bolt intimates, but in truth we are no better than the jury that condemns him. In this production, we in fact become that jury--it is to us Cromwell turns as he urges conviction. In our role as jurors, we judge More guilty; but in our role as audience, we understand his motives for dying, and judge their dramatization a success...