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Robert Preston, this disaster's star, noted recently that it's the most "literary" play he's read in years, and indeed it is. Take, for example, the twelfth century similes: "You're like the rocks of Stonehenge, nothing can knock you down;" or, "You're dull as plainsong." or then again, "You're so foul you're fair." At times, it seems like the entire purpose of the drama is to show that the Plantagnets were, after all, just folks. "You're a failure as a father," the adolescent Prince John accuses the King, while the Queen muses, "Children...
Born of an obscure Nottinghamshire family, Allenby could nevertheless claim a martial ancestor of distinction: Oliver Cromwell. Still, he joined the army merely by mischance, having previously failed his civil service exams. A big quiet clumsy boy, he passed out twelfth in his class at Sandhurst, and was promptly gazetted to the Inniskilling Dragoons near Durban, South Africa, where he spent the better part of the next 20 years. When the Boer War began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry...
...membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally integrated: out of 1,025 members of the church, which is in a predominantly Negro neighborhood, four are Negro. His critics charge that Davis has quietly encouraged potential applicants to try the nearby all-Negro Twelfth Street Christian Church...
Davis concedes that his church may not have done enough to encourage Negroes to join, and admits that National City should probably incorporate the poverty-stricken Twelfth Street Church. But he explains that church integration is fraught with subtle dangers, and must be done on a carefully controlled basis. "When you get to a certain percentage, you cannot allow any more, or else the church will become all another race," he says...
...from the beginning. With the rise of political parties in the 1790s, it became an undemocratic anachronism by which three candidates who had run second in the popular election actually became President.* While Congress has considered dozens of proposals for reform, the system has remained basically intact since the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, prescribed separate electoral votes for President and Vice President...