Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little boy" must have been humming Thank Heaven for Little Girls over his good fortune. Who else but a morally indifferent ingenue would coo over his feeling sorry for himself because a soldier had died in Bosnia and would let him use it as an excuse to violate his fidelity calendar: the record she said he kept of the days he didn't cheat on his wife, like an alcoholic crossing off days he stays off the sauce. One frightening claim in the book is that the President became "sexually aroused" by Monica's description of her own Bosnia visit...
...Leon Pierre was by far not the youngest soldier. Some were as young as 10," Ayers added...
...Leon Pierre was by far not the youngest soldier. Some were as young as 10," Ayers added...
...others in a racially offensive manner. Some of the characters in particular, such as the Dutch shipmaker Vanderdendur, the New World governor and the Old Lady, rely on stereotypical accents and mannerisms as well. There is also rather graphic scene in which Cunegonde is nearly raped by a soldier. Certainly, there is a tradition in the esprit francais of irony, satire, parody ody that pokes fun at every institution, goodor bad. It started in medieval times with thefabliaux, continued through Moliere.Voltaire, and flourishes in Modern days withLes Chansonniers, Les Freres Jacques, LesInconnus, George Brassens and Le CanardEnchaine...
...undeniable record of his education--a degree from Oxford University and a solid grounding in the law that would explain the plenitude of Tudor legalese in the plays? Again, unlike the Stratford man, this nobleman would have once resided in Venice, the site of several plays. An able soldier, our earl would also be the nephew of a pioneer in the form of sonnet we now call Shakespearean; another uncle translated Ovid's Metamorphoses, the source of much Shakespearean allusion. He would be hailed as poet and playwright and become patron of an acting troupe. Finally, what if our nobleman...