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Himself a dabbler in real estate, Shakespeare was fascinated with property jargon. He often speaks of "purchase"-a then new method of acquiring land by other means than inheritance. Henry IV reminds his son that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease...
...contrast, Swarthmore is endlessly involved in social action, partly because of the Quaker influence that still has the campus telephone operator say "Thank thee." Almost conventionally liberal, Swarthmore sent an ambulance to Loyalist Spain in the 1930s, began deliberately recruiting Negro students in the early 1940s. Swarthmoreans analyze disarmament, criticize the McCarran Act, lead civil rights demonstrations, from Chester, Pa., to Cambridge, Md. Last fall 60 student pickets got arrested in Chester...
...subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among the Prestigious. Then came the annual presidential prayer breakfast, attended by some 1,000 men at the Mayflower Hotel. Evangelist Billy Gra ham preached, Revival Singer George Beverly Shea let out resoundingly with My Saviour God to Thee, and Johnson called for a privately financed, all-faiths "Center of Prayer" in Washington. He then went across the hall to a separate prayer breakfast for women, assured the ladies that prayer in the Johnson family has always been "aloud and proud." Flying to New York, Johnson landed at Kennedy...
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep...
Anybody who has read the sonnets knows that Shakespeare is addressing a young man and urging him to marry and preserve his line: "Die single and thine image dies with thee." But who is the boy? When did Shakespeare write to him? And who are the rival poet and the dark lady who later appear in the sequence? These murky questions have perplexed generations of scholars...