years ago, in days when much of my time was passed in a Country House, where children and mirth abounded, the lines beginning, ‘There was an old man of Tobago’, were suggested to me by a valued friend, as a form of verse lending itself to limitless
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our two nations.” At this point, the huge monitors at each end of the stadium suddenly went black and then displayed a beautiful screensaver of colorful interlaced flowers (see fig. 1 ). This sparked a great deal of mirth among the audience, and for a
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the seemingly innocuous evocations of Algerian history, contemporary society, and Islamic cultural norms. Maheddine's troupe brought harmless words on a page to life with mirth and satire, undercutting the French regime even as they sought to avoid its
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Becoming a Gentleman
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possess Man’s strength to comfort man’s distress. Teach us Delight in simple things, And Mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And Love to all men ’neath the sun! Land of our Birth, our faith, our pride, For whose dear sake our
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