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...years and was immediately received into the king's Court upon his return in 1664. By the following spring he had already begun to make an infamous name for himself: he kidnapped Elizabeth Mallet, an heiress whom he was courting. Charles II sent Rochester to the Tower for this, his earliest offense, although it took only three weeks to appease the king and set the prankster free until his trial came up. War broke out with the Dutch, Rochester volunteered, and soon released himself from further punishment by proving his courage in two sea-battles...
...opposed Bowles. The radicals saw the faculty saying that, in a liberal university, all ideas are to be tolerated-except those ideas that critically undercut the very basis of liberal scholarship, the liberal credos of the scholar as an impartial observer of society and the university as an ivory tower outside the influence and direction of the prevailing social order...
...small wonder that Reisman and his colleagues collected crowds in Asia and Eastern Europe, where table tennis is the sport of commissars. It is smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing...
...Left Bank. Because the government was putting up 40% of construction costs, the autoroute died on the drawing board. Then Giscard vetoed new high-rise apartments that were planned to replace the picturesque artists' colony of Cité Fleurie. Next he blocked construction of an office tower, which Pompidou once described as a "monument to my presidency," on the now cleared grounds of the old Les Halles market. Instead, Giscard ruled that the whole area be turned into a 13-acre garden-the first major park in Paris since Bois de Boulogne was created over a century...
Richard, played by Michael Moriarty, is steeped in evil. To seize the crown of England he murders, or has his agents murder, some half a dozen people, including the two boy princes royal who are smothered in the Tower of London. Over the coffin bearing the dead father-in-law of Lady Anne (Marsha Mason), Richard woos and wins her, despite the fact that he had killed both the father-in-law and her husband. Although he is a lump of deformity with a hunched back and a withered arm, Richard must have the power to attract as well...