Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court of King's Bench decision in London in favor of a runaway slave, James Somerset, brought slavery to a virtual end in England. But in the Colonies, real moves against slavery have been few. Three years ago, a group of slaves in Massachusetts petitioned the General Court to be free of bondage. Another group applied to the legislature, asking that they be allowed to work for themselves one day a week and so buy their freedom. No one answered the appeals. Though the Massachusetts legislature has been offered various bills abolishing the slave trade, all have been defeated...
...eyewitness to his superstitious yet brilliant era. Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society. Titled ladies, including the Countess of Essex and Somerset, consulted him. So did churchmen, merchants, seafarers, servants and prostitutes. A grandson of Thomas More was one of his clients, as were Shakespeare's landlady and Emilia Bassano, the mysterious Venetian who Rowse claims (in Shakespeare the Man) was the "Dark Lady" of the sonnets...
...Somerset (12) Another World got overly large 5½ years ago, so half the cast moved to Somerset and out of contention...
...latter three soaps are owned by Procter & Gamble, which remains convinced that Phillips' homely style requires no updating. The last big-time soap sponsor, P&G runs the shows from Cincinnati with Kremlin-like authority. P & G's six serials (which also include Edge of Night, Somerset and Search for Tomorrow) are reworkings of conventional material and have little of the dash of the newer dramas. "I guess we're awfully dull," admits Joe Willmore, who directs the writers of As the World Turns. "I hate to say it, but I don't want to preach to people about social...
...CONSTANT WIFE by SOMERSET MAUGHAM...