Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles, in a clear, composed voice, read the lesson, as Britain last week paid final homage to Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet and the beloved "Uncle Dickie" to the royal family. It was a splendorous funeral that rivaled in pomp and pageantry the state funerals of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 and the Duke of Wellington in 1852. With his flair for spectacle, Lord Mountbatten had begun to plan the ceremonies in 1976, well aware that as Queen Victoria's last living great grandson, he was a unique link to the glorious days of empire...
...having planted it. The bomb injured four band members and twelve spectators; no one was killed. Intelligence experts have believed for some time that Irish terrorists have a base in Europe, whose operatives were responsible for the gunning down last March of the British Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, and possibly the car bombing from which outgoing NATO Supreme Commander General Alexander Haig narrowly escaped on June...
Hoagland's footsteps are hardly the first to fall on East Africa from the outside world, any more than were those of Sir Richard Burton, the demonic Victorian explorer and scholar of the forbid den who infiltrated hostile cities dressed in native robes and speaking fluent Arabic. By contrast, Hoagland drifts in and out of stagnant backwaters, a rumpled, skinny fugitive from L.L. Bean whose spoken English is hampered by a bad stutter. He is as puzzling and exotic to his hosts as they are to him, one of a long line of white hunters and note takers whom...
...think Rosalynn is her Jimmy's closest adviser. There's not a general or admiral alive who would be allowed to let his wife sit in on "commander's calls," much less help to devise a battle plan. A First Lady? Yes! A copresident? No sir...
...slow, and his famous "revels now are ended" speech lacks sufficient musicality. He is much better in the abjuration soliloquy--which many have thought to be the playwright's own valedictory, although Shakespeare went on to collaborate on Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, the lost Cardenio, and perhaps Sir Thomas More. Haigh has a long way to go before he matches Carnovsky's 1960 Prospero...