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...Europe has grown so big that in some places battlefield communication between NATO forces and their US allies has become difficult. "It is such a deep divide that there is a risk that NATO will become an irritant for the Americans, rather than a partner of choice," says James Arbuthnot, a British Conservative Party politician who chairs the Parliament's select defense committee. The apparent problem-free warmth between Obama and other NATO leaders over the state of the alliance, he believes, "is an illusion...
...flap this bug with gilded wings, thus painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet , and beauty ne'er enjoys. --Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
...could not get that sort of thing off his chest once in a while, he might lose his self-control. Without letters the London Times would be devoid of its liveliest pages; there would be no great literary epistles like Pope's to "Dr. Arbuthnot"no epistolary novels like Pamela and Clarissa-a minor loss, but a loss nonetheless, the loss of a form. That is what a letter is, after all: a literary form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that...
...local Saratogian at $7 a week. After World War I, Sullivan moved on to New York City and the eminence of a job on the World, then perhaps the most highly regarded U.S. newspaper. It was there that he switched from news to humor and created his famed Mr. Arbuthnot, whose straight-faced conversation consisted of flawlessly crafted strings of clichés. ("When I'm not playing second fiddle, I'm off to Newcastle with coals, or burying the hatchet.") When the World died in 1931, Sullivan became a fixture at The New Yorker, to which he contributed from...
Brotherly Love is so bad a movie that O'Toole appears to be in almost continual spasm from beginning to end. Mired in the Scottish highlands, he plays a daft and decadent nobleman, improbably named Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, who has an unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor...