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...16th Century had its bastards, and Borgia was one of them, with particularly illegitimate and realistic political ideas. Quite probably he picked up some from his father, Pope Alexander VI,* who was realistic enough to shock even Renaissance Italy. Borgia made a great impression on Europe while he lasted (he died at 31). He made a greater one still on Machiavelli, who spent a few months at his headquarters, as envoy from the Signory of Florence...
...that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
...first days were fine. Until the novelty of their new surroundings palled, they could forget the shock of their first impressions, the unsmiling faces of the conquered...
This might have been the Cain to end Cains-and is more likely to do that in quite a different way. But not at the box office. There, considering the stars and the shock value, it ought to gross its weight in uranium...
...sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...