Word: stuffs
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Henry V itself concludes a tetralogy that covers 24 years of English history. The three plays that come first--Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV--are far superior as works of art; but even third-drawer Shakespeare is pretty wonderful stuff. According to the standard view, Richard was a legitimate but incompetent monarch; Henry IV was capable but doomed by having usurped the crown; and Henry V was Shakespeare's conception of the perfect sovereign, a hero-king with legitimate title...
Teaching in a small town, I was so amazed at the potential of my high school students that I brought Swift and Voltaire into a great books curriculum. Such stuff is food for American youngsters and I found they are hungry...
...season's Reading Faces and last decade's popular Body Language have explored the individual's tendency to broadcast things (unconsciously and otherwise) through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly a primer in how to manipulate others by a cold-blooded control of nonverbal signals that occur commonly in the workaday world: for example, how executives...
...Center that includes doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital, staffers from WGBH TV, and even some crusty sea-faring alumni for day sailing, private lessons, and weekly barbeques. "We get quite an interesting social group together down here for the summer," Tarlow says. "Plenty of fun boy-girl stuff and all that...
...better Madison Avenue offices, admen offer clients coke instead of martinis. Says one New York advertising executive: "About 75% of all the bright young Turks in the advertising business use some regularly, some occasionally, but they all use it. Spill out a couple of grams of that white stuff on the table and everyone knows where you're coming from...