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Dorothea's male counterpart is Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), a young doctor who sets up practice in Middlemarch and agrees to run, for free, a research hospital funded by the town's grasping banker. Lydgate also makes a disastrous marriage -- to Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell), a flirtatious ninny whose spendthrift ways soon bring the couple to the edge of bankruptcy. Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a conventional but lucrative practice in London...
...token of Eliot's genius for realism that most of it rings truer than some of the words concocted by Middlemarch's capable scenarist, Andrew Davies. In a bodice-ripping love scene that is not in the novel, Rosamond tells her smitten husband, "You must be gentle with me, Tertius, now I am with child." Even on her worst day, George Eliot could never have written a line as precious as that...
...South Africans are grimly pursuing their own debate about the future, fully confident that their decisions will be the determining ones. As they see it, the West has become irrational about sanctions and there is little point any longer in trying to bring reason to bear. The issue, says Tertius Myburgh, editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, has become "cost-free election politics" in the U.S. and "Margaret Thatcher's problem, not ours" in Britain. Although it generates political heat in Washington and London, the argument is, for white South Africans, no more than the sound of distant shouting...
...Tertius Chandler...
...sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...