Word: vere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly, long-smoldering dispute exploded last week and split Australia's brawling, sprawling Labor Party wide open. Labor Party Chief Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, 60, openly declared war on the party's biggest single faction: the Catholic right wing, which contains almost half of Labor's membership...
...Herbert Vere Evatt, leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, former Justice of the High Court, former Minister of External Affairs, bears no taint of Communism or espionage, and he had little need to be involved in the hearings. But whether by design, accident or a perverse combination of both, Herbert Evatt has staked his reputation and his future on a strange and lonely campaign to discredit all that the Royal Commission and the government are attempting...
...DARK LADY, by Cothburn O'Neal (313 pp.; Crown; $3.50). A quaint "theory" about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays: it was a woman, Rosaline de Vere, illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Oxford. What with the prejudice of the day and Rose's being a poor defenseless bit of a thing, Actor Will obligingly markets the plays with the Globe Theatre and signs his name to them. Rose meanwhile dashes off a great many billets-doux in the form of very quotable sonnets to her true love, the Earl of Southampton. The book is clearly marked...
Where the crevasses Vere widest, the climbers built bridges with ropes and a portable ladder that stretched to 30 ft. Camp II was halfway, Camp III at the top. And after 45 days, they stood in the Western...
...plot elaborates the Good and Evil theme, to be sure, but not nearly enough to account for the success of this production. That must be owed to the excellent acting of Jerry Kilty as Captain Vere, that of Peter Temple as Claggart, John Kerr, as Billy Budd, and to nearly everyone else in the cast, especially Paul Sparer and Paul Ballantyne, and, of course, to the directing of Albert Marre...