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...captain Chip Robie (2), Spenser Brog (6), John Dinneen (7), and Tal Johnson (8) followed their teammates' lead in close suit, closing out their matches in four games...
...dynamic teacher. In the years before his illness Grandine taught both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
...Peter Spenser--Ragtime country blues, The Idler...
...Spenser, as readers know from Robert Parker's four other novels about the man, is a flip, middleaged, not too successful private investigator from Boston. He has style though and, rarer yet, compassion and a moral code. Asked by a Massachusetts millionaire to track down the gang of crazies who killed his wife and daughters with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members...
...insinuated Christian themes into a variety of other works. Those included a widely read space fantasy trilogy and seven immensely successful children's stories known as The Chronicles of Narnia. As an expert on medieval and Renaissance English at Oxford and Cambridge he also produced standard works on Spenser, Milton, and 16th century prose and poetry...