Recently a columnist wrote, of our particularly egregious corrupt politicians and their camp followers, that they were new to the game, "all sharp elbows and no finesse." I think the same can be said of 15c efforts at "spin." The rise of a moneyed and literate middle class was a fairly new phenomenon; both their efforts to seek favor and the warring factions' efforts to influence them are a little oversupplied with sharp elbows as well.
If you'd like to see the scroll, and some of my comments about it, see
We (the Richard III Society, American Branch) raised $5,000 to pay for its conservation prior to a 2001 exhibition -- the first time, we suspect, it had been on public display since the fifteenth century. The exhibition can best be described as awesome; the Museum constructed a special 20-foot-long case so that the scroll could be displayed unrolled.
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Date: 2005-08-24 05:39 am (UTC)Recently a columnist wrote, of our particularly egregious corrupt politicians and their camp followers, that they were new to the game, "all sharp elbows and no finesse." I think the same can be said of 15c efforts at "spin." The rise of a moneyed and literate middle class was a fairly new phenomenon; both their efforts to seek favor and the warring factions' efforts to influence them are a little oversupplied with sharp elbows as well.
If you'd like to see the scroll, and some of my comments about it, see
http://www.r3.org/bookcase/misc/e201.html
We (the Richard III Society, American Branch) raised $5,000 to pay for its conservation prior to a 2001 exhibition -- the first time, we suspect, it had been on public display since the fifteenth century. The exhibition can best be described as awesome; the Museum constructed a special 20-foot-long case so that the scroll could be displayed unrolled.