Word: flatterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking to flatter your professor/parent/roommate/prospective date? Then take note. Nominations for honorary-degree candidates are now being considered--lucky winners will receive the awards at Commencement ceremonies next June 10. Send suggestions, before October 10, to Robert Shenton, secretary to the Corporation, at 17 Quincy St., Cambridge...
...first Earl Spencer. Georgiana, the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire but better known as the Duchess of Dimples, achieved unwedded bliss with a Prince of Wales, the eventual George IV. Her comely sister Henrietta boasted in her diary: "In my 51st year I am courted, follow'd, flatter'd and made love to, en toutes les formes, by four men." Not all the Spencers were so sportive. George, brother of the third Earl Spencer, converted to Roman Catholicism and, as Father Ignatius of the Passionist Order, had a reputation as a saint. The order is now preparing a proposal...
...times, Song of Solomon reads like a song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
...want to flatter or cajole--people should want to come to Harvard," Scalise says...
...castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter her father and the play commences, careening out of control...