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...Trustees of the Rhodes Trust asked the English Parliament this summer to pass an act that allows any endowed educational fund to petition to open the grant to members of both sexes, regardless of the donor's intention. When the act came before the House of Lords, Lord Blake, current warden of the Rhodes Trust, said, "I can safely predict that if this goes through the Rhodes Trust will be among the first single-sex educational trusts to make an application to the (English) Secretary of State...
...Superlatives. Assembled chronologically from Caedmon (circa 670) to Dylan Thomas, these footnotes and headstones have a variety of uses. Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives. What, for instance, is the best way to die? Surely it must be singing lustily, as did William Blake. Who invented the most uncomfortable method of fishing? The appropriately named Thomas Birch, who tried to make himself inconspicuous to the fish by dressing up as a tree. What is the most gallant method of repulsing a bore at a party? Undoubtedly, Robert Browning's: "But, my dear fellow...
...capitalism also proved to be a disruptive force on an equally gigantic scale. It subjected humanity to the psychological shock of living with continuous and accelerating technological and social change. The Industrial Revolution covered Europe and America with what Smith's contemporary, Poet William Blake, called "dark Satanic mills," wiping out cottage industry and jamming workers into ugly new factory towns. Though the purchasing power of factory workers began to rise slowly, a father's earnings were often insufficient to support a family. Children as young as eight worked as much as 14 hours a day in the mills...
Screenplay by FRANK WALDMAN and BLAKE EDWARDS...
What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly...