Word: basile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...omitting Harcourt Brace's legal seminars from its calendar of events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...
...judgment that Waugh "is likely to figure as the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Characters like Lady Margot Metroland, Mayfair hostess and procuress of Decline and Fall, Mrs. Melrose Ape of Vile Bodies, the American evangelist modeled on Aimee Semple McPherson, Basil Seal, highborn wastrel of Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, and Lord Copper, publisher of the Beast in Scoop, still delight because there are always new grotesques to fill the shoes of Waugh's caricatures. And his work has more serious undertones: extrapolations of what Waugh called "existing...
...band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest of his life. Waugh's most savage literary revenge for past hurts occurs in Black Mischief when Basil Seal unwittingly dines on his girlfriend during a cannibal feast...
After two days of debate last week, the best the city council could do was appropriate funds to pay policemen's salaries through Nov. 13 and fire fighters' salaries through Dec. 3. Said Council Majority Leader Basil Russo: "I hate to say it, but I think the city will be under the control of a receiver by the end of the year...
...have a 9 o'clock class every morning and we all come in in a rush. I just go through and smile, without taking out my card. The whole class does it now, I think. --Basil P. Bourque...