Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Whatever his Rana-enforced limitations, the King is the hero of the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party, which seeks to establish a constitutional monarchy. Recently, leaders of this party moved in from India, stepped up their agitation against the Ranas. When a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister was thwarted, the King asked Prime Minister Rana for permission to leave the country. The present Sr1³, unlike Jung Bahadur Rana, refused to let the King go into exile. The King, with some of his jewels and both of his wives, sneaked into the Indian embassy, claimed the right of asylum...
...novel Murder at the Met, scheduled for publication next year. "I have, oh, about 40 or more pages typed already. I hunt and pick at it and the process is very laborious, because I first write it out in longhand. I make notes on incidents and angles in the plot, then work it out in writing...
Searching for a plot that would serve as megaphone to his ebullient feelings (he always has difficulty inventing plots), Fry bought, read and discarded twelve volumes of short stories, finally found an old German short story about a man who wanted to be hanged...
...school stationery is common for all purposes and no one, hitherto, has ever supposed that the writer was expressing anything other then his own views--except, perhaps, "liberale" Ike Mr. Chastain of the Liberal Union, who see a plot against "liberalism" behind every bush. I daresay that not a single recipient of Professor Amory's letters thought they represented anything except a colleague's suggestions; if this is doubted, let the CRIMSON ask them and find out. Otherwise, let's give our professors the courtesy of at least believing them to be honest men--even when we don't agree...
Evelyn Waugh is one of the finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...