cadence, operator, mien, range, ranger, tab, proffer, You bet! resplendent, “What we want is a stable cadence that is predictable.” Robert Hur defended himself in the unhurried, forceful cadence of a veteran prosecutor.

Robert Hur defended himself in the unhurried, forceful cadence of a veteran prosecutor.

What to Know After Severe Storms Hit Vast Areas of the U.S.

Flooding, flight delays and power outages remain widespread after hazardous weather ranged across much of the nation.

 Napoleon’s rise at this point is largely facilitated by the politician Paul Barras (Tahar Rahim), a silky operator with the pacific mien of a patiently lurking predator and an inescapable aristocratic hauteur.

“What we want is a stable cadence that is predictable,” said Kirk Skaugen, the executive vice president leading server sales at Lenovo, a Chinese company that is planning 25 new systems based on the new processor. “Sapphire Rapids is the start of a journey.”

“It is good to be a soldier and a detrimental; you touch the hearts of women and charm them—old and young, high or low (excepting, perhaps, a few worldly mothers of marriageable daughters). They take the sticking of your tongue in the cheek for the wearing of your heart on the sleeve.

Indeed, good women all over the world, and ever since it began, have loved to be bamboozled by these genial, roistering daredevils, who haven’t got a penny to bless themselves with (which is so touching), and are supposed to carry their lives in their hands, even in piping times of peace. Nay, even a few rare bad women sometimes, such women as the best and wisest of us are often ready to sell our souls for!.

A lightsome eye, a soldier’s mien,
A feather of the blue,
A doublet of the Lincoln green—
No more of me you knew,
My love!
No More of me you knew...

As if that wasn't enough, and to spare!” - George Du Maurier, Trilby

George Du Maurier died #OTD in 1896. In 1891 he published his first novel, Peter Ibbetson, and in 1894, Trilby, for which he is still remembered.

PBS NewsHour

Rangers battle against an increasingly well-armed and well-funded enemy, with no end in sight.

Why wildlife preserves in Kenya resemble war zones

With rhinoceros horn now more valuable than gold on the black market, poaching has reached unprecedented levels. Some wildlife preserves in Africa resemble war zones, as rangers struggle to keep pace with…

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“The women in Ranger School are another example of, if they can meet the standard, they should be able to go, and they should be able to earn their Ranger tab."

History made: Army Ranger School to graduate its first female students ever

The women will graduate alongside male service members Friday in a...


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美遊騎兵學校 首見2女兵結訓

美國 【石秀娟╱綜合外電報導】美國陸軍前天宣布，遊騎兵學校周五將首度有2名女兵結訓，她們近期通過該校2個月魔鬼訓練課程的最後階段，背負約45公斤的重裝備，越過崎嶇山路與沼澤。軍方未公布其姓名，但此結果可望促使美軍檢討是否

range
/reɪn(d)ʒ/
noun
1.
the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale.
"the cost will be in the range of $1–5 million a day"
Similar:
span
scope
compass
radius
scale
gamut
reach
sweep
extent
area
field
orbit
ambit
province
realm
domain
horizon
latitude
limits
bounds
confines
parameters
vary
fluctuate
differ
extend
stretch
cover
go
run
pass
2.
a set of different things of the same general type.
"the area offers a wide range of activities for the tourist"
Similar:
assortment
variety
diversity
mixture
collection
array
set
selection
choice
pick
kind
sort
type
class
rank
order
genus
species
verb
1.
vary or extend between specified limits.
"prices range from £30 to £100"
Similar:
vary
fluctuate
differ
extend
stretch
reach
cover
go
run
pass
2.
place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner.
"a table with half a dozen chairs ranged around it"

operator
/ˈɒpəreɪtə/
noun
1.
a person who operates equipment or a machine.
"a radio operator"
Similar:
machinist
mechanic
operative
engineer
driver
worker
machine minder
2.
a person or company that runs a business.
"a tour operator"

usually disapproving An operator is a person who is often successful but seems too intelligent or speaks and acts too quickly and may not always be honest:

tab¹

tab/

noun

1. 1.

   a small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information.

   synonyms:

   tag, flap, loop, lappet, label; More

But he was able at the psychological moment to catch and reflect the floatmg aspiration, and to give to it a definite cadence and a form. 

He kept refining his craft after his return, cultivating a broader audience. Under Taliban rule, he dared to publish a book of his work — a grave mistake.

“The Taliban beat me very badly,” he said, shaking his head, then proffering a smile. “After that, I decided publishing wasn’t such a good idea.”

Rochester's most famous verse concerned King Charles II, his great friend. In reply to his jest that:

"He never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one",

Charles is reputed to have said:

"That is true -- for my words are my own, but my actions are those of my ministers."

All that evening and night Yakov dreamed of the child, of the willow tree, of the fish and the geese, of Martha with her profile like a thirsty bird, and of Rothschild's pale, piteous mien. Queer faces seemed to be moving toward him from all sides, muttering to him about his losses. He tossed from side to side, and got up five times during the night to play his fiddle.


mien

1. Bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind: "He was a Vietnam veteran with a haunted mien" (James Traub).
2. An appearance or aspect.

[Alteration (influenced by French mine, appearance) of Middle English demeine, demeanor, from Old French, from demener , to behave. See demean¹.]

━━ n.n. - 風采, 樣子, 態度
日本語 (Japanese) 風采(ふうさい), 態度.
n. - 物腰, 態度, 風采

Français (French)
mine, expression

Pepys' Diary: Wednesday 4 April 1660
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be? Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!" new. Hhomeboy on Sun 6 Apr 2003, ...

Sober in govt….continued:
One of the better exchanges between Rochester and The King:
"Rochester:Were I in your Majesty's place I would not govern at all.
The King: How then?
Rochester: I would send for my good Lord Rochester and command him to govern.
The King: But the singular modesty of that nobleman-
Rochester: He would certainly conform himself to your Majesty's bright example. How gloriously would the two grand social virtues flourish under his auspices!
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be?
Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!"

crest
The Family Motto is: "PRISCA FIDES" this translates to "Ancient Trust" and can
be traced to John Glassford Tobacco Lord. ...

ip·so fac·to ( ĭp'sō făk'tō)
adv.
By the fact itself; by that very fact: An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a U.S. passport.
[New Latin ipsō factō : Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, itself + Latin factō, ablative of factum , fact.]

September 15, 1974

A Martyr to Sin

By WALTER CLEMONS

LORD ROCHESTER'S MONKEYBy Graham Greene.

n the best known portrait of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, a pet monkey proffers a tattered page ripped from one of his master's books. The Earl, resplendent in silks, coolly awards the beast a laurel crown. "Were I...," Rochester wrote, "a spirit free, to choose for my own share/ what sort of flesh and blood I pleas'd to wear,/ I'd be a dog, a monkey or a bear,/ Or any thing but that vain animal/ Who is so proud of being rational."
For more than two centuries Rochester's notoriety as the wildest of "the merry gang" of wits who converged at Charles II's court during the 1660's overshadowed his reputation as a poet. The poetry- skeptical, parodistic, obscene and scathing- was a rediscovery of the 1920's, though John Hayward's 1926 Nonesuch edition escaped prosecution only by being limited to 1,050 copies. A scholarly biography by Vivian de Sola Pinto (1935; revised as "Enthusiast in Wit," 1962) usefully related Rochester's libertinism to Hobbesian materialism- specifically to Hobbes's doctrine that sensory experience was the only philosophical reality. Pinto pitched his claims high: "If Milton is the great poet of belief in the 17th century, Rochester is the great poet of unbelief."
Professor Pinto's book hadn't yet appeared when Graham Greene, an unsuccessful novelist in his twenties, wrote a biography of Rochester 40 years ago. It was turned down "without hesitation" by his publisher, Greene told us in his 1971 autobiography, "and I was too uncertain of myself to send it elsewhere." The typescript has now been retrieved from the University of Texas library, minimally revised and elaborately packaged by George Rainbird Ltd. of London in the format of Nancy Mitford's "The Sun King" and Angus Wilson's "The World of Charles Dickens."
"Lord Rochester's Monkey," it turns out, is Greene's best early work- a writer's book about a writer, with the vibrations of affinity we feel in Henry James's "Hawthorne" or John Berryman's "Stephen Crane." Greene, who had drawn the title of his first novel from Sir Thomas Browne- "There's another man within me that's angry with me"- responded to the discord between Cavalier and Puritan in Rochester's character, the extremities of debauchery and disgust, his personal elegance and appetite for squalor, the acrid blend of bawdry and moral fervor in his verses.
Rochester lived with extraordinary velocity. Son of a Cavalier general who had followed Charles II into exile, and of a strong willed Puritan mother, he presented himself at court at 17- "graceful, tho' tall and slender," according to an early account, "his mien and shape having something extremely engaging; and for his mind, it discovered charms not to be withstood." The next year he was in the Tower for having tried to abduct the heiress Elizabeth Mallet, whose guardians aimed to auction her in marriage to a higher bidder. Freed, he redeemed himself by bravery with the fleet against the Dutch, returned to be sworn a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber and to elope with Elizabeth Mallet, this time successfully, when he was 19.
Of the tradition that he "was very barbarous to his own lady, tho' so very fine a woman," Greene observes that "infidelity was the full extent of his barbarity. A love story... may have lain hidden between these two young, witty and unhappy people." As he veered between country and court, Rochester's inconstancy seems to have tormented him. More than one letter to his wife is filled with tender regret: "I myself have a sense of what the methods of my life seem so utterly to contradict..."
Rochester told the historian Gibert Burnet that "for five years together he was continually drunk; not all the while under the visible effect of it." He was repeatedly banished- and as often recalled- by the King he scurrilously lampooned. Drink made him "extravagantly pleasant"; it also led to disgraces like the smashing of the royal sundial and the brawl at Epsom in which his friend Mr. Downes was killed. Greene plausibly links the most famous of Rochester's masquerades to the aftermath of the Epsom affray: he vanished from London and a mysterious Dr. Alexander Bendo- astrologer, diviner of dreams, dispenser of beauty aids and cures for women's diseases- set up shop on Tower Hill. "Dr. Bendo's" advertisement is one of the most dazzling virtuoso pieces of 17th-century prose. In its impromptu rush of quackery and Biblical cadences, its promises of marvels and its teasing challenge to distinguish the counterfeit from the real. Greene astutely notes "the cracks in the universe of Hobbes, the disturbing doubts in his disbelief, which may have been in Rochester's mind even in the midst of his masquerade, so riddled is the broadsheet with half truths."
Dating his poems is a snare, but Rochester's Songs and his best satires- "A Ramble in St. James's Park," the "Satyr Against Reason and Mankind," "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country," "The Maim'd Debauchee"- all seem to have been written before he turned 29. Thereafter "an embittered and thoughtful man who would die in 1680 of old age at 33," he seldom appeared at court. In his last year he debated theology with the Anglican Gilbert Burnet and underwent a religious conversion, the authenticity of which was impugned when Burnet published his account of it but which Greene, like Vivian de Sola Pinto, believes to have been genuine. "The hand of God touched him," Burnet wrote- "but," Greene characteristically adds, "it did not touch him through the rational arguments of a cleric. If God appeared at the end, it was the sudden secret appearance of a thief... without reason, an act of grace."
Rochester is thus the earliest of Graham Greene's black sheep heroes, far more powerfully drawn than the protagonists of the novels Greene was writing at this time ("The Man Within," "Rumour at Nightfall," "The Name of Action"). Facets of Rochester's character will reappear in the dangerous Pinky in "Brighton Rock," the whisky priest, the remorseful husband in "The Heart of the Matter," the God-thwarted amorist in "The End of the Affair." At Rochester's funeral the chaplain preached an unusual sermon: "He seemed to affect something singular and paradoxical in his impieties, as well as in his writings, above the reach and thought of other men... Nay, so confirmed was he in sin, that he oftentimes almost died a martyr for it."
"Lord Rochester's Monkey," with a bibliography containing no item more recent than 1931, is going to catch hell from some scholars. Greene gracefully acknowledges Pinto's work ("I have no wish to rewrite my biography at Professor Pinto's expense") and sideswipes David M. Vieth's 1968 "The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester" (Yale University Press): "As Mr. Vieth admits the attribution to a great many poems depends on subjective judgment, and out ears often differ... Rochester's poems from his death on became more indecent with every year, and I have the impression that Mr. Vieth is inclined to prefer the hotter versions." But 40 years' work on the dating and ascription of Rochester's writings (by Pinto, John Harold Wilson, James Thorpe, Frank H. Ellis, Vieth and others) has left Greene in a number of unprotected positions.
Four out of five verse citations on a single page, during a discussion of Rochester's marriage, are now pretty reliably believed not to be Rochester's. Misdating a letter blunts its fine edge of sarcasm: when Rochester wrote, "My passion for living is so increased that I omit no care of myself... The King, who knows me to be a very ill-natured man, will not think it an easy matter for me to die, now I live chiefly out of spite," it now appears he was not referring to the false report of his death in 1678 but to the King's premature appointment, three years earlier, of Rochester's successor to the lifetime post of the Ranger of Woodstock Park. When Rochester wonders at the enmity of the Duchess of Portsmouth, Greene remarks, "He had forgotten 'Portsmouth's Mirror'" -a poem containing allusions to events after his death.
These lapses disfigure the book but cannot wreck it. Greene's intuition of character yields insights that academic caution might prohibit. He is at his keenest in a chapter on Elizabeth Barry, the London actress who bore Rochester a daughter remembered in his will. Her fellow players despaired of her; she had "not a musical ear" and could not master the declamatory tragedy-queen style. Undertaking her training on a bet, Rochester "caused her to enter into the meaning of every sentiment... and adapt her whole behavior to the situations of the characters." (Professor Pinto loses his head and tells us "we can see here the beginnings of a new art of the theatre that was to culminate in the naturalistic drama of Ibsen, Shaw and Chekov.")
Mrs. Barry became one of the great actresses of her time, unequalled in the art of exciting pity, Colley Cibber said. And notorious offstage, Greene adds, for her combination of immorality and coldness. Thirty-four undated letters to "slattern Betty Barry" exist in print, though not in manuscript. Greene shifts these into a pattern of his own, speculating that she inspired the famous lyric "An age in her embraces past/ Would seem a winter's day"- with its piercing observation that while pleasure may be mistaken for true love, "pain can ne'er deceive." It is a convincing feat of historical imagination. Greene's claim for his Rochester is justified: "So complex a character can be 'dramatized' (in James's sense) in more ways than one. The longer I worked on his life the more living he became to me."

Walter Clemons is an editor of Newsweek.

side・swipe
sideswipe (REMARK)
noun [C]
a remark attacking something or someone made while talking about something else:
During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the management.

━━ n., v. 横なぐり（する）; ことのついでの非難.sideswipe (HIT) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to hit on the side:
The motorcycle turned the corner too quickly, and sideswiped a car coming towards it.

at the expense of sb (ALSO at sb's expense)
making another person look foolish:
Would you stop making jokes at my expense?

cadence n. （詩の）リズム; （声の）抑揚; 【楽】終止法.

cadence   節奏

Line breaks: ca|dence

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪd(ə)ns/

noun

• 1A modulation or inflection of the voice: the measured cadences that he employed in the Senate
  

  
  
• 1.1A rhythmical effect in written text: the dry cadences of the essay
  

  
  
• 1.2A fall in pitch of the voice at the end of a phrase or sentence.
  

  
  
• 1.3 [mass noun] Rhythm: the thumping cadence of the engines
  

  
  

• 2A sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical phrase: the final cadences of the Prelude
  

  
  

Derivatives

cadenced
adjective

More example sentences

Origin

late Middle English (in the sense 'rhythm or metrical beat'): via Old French from Italian cadenza, based on Latin cadere 'to fall'.

rang・er

━━ n. 歩き回る人; 騎馬パトロール隊員; 〔米〕 森林警備隊員; 〔英〕 御料林監視官; 〔米〕 （普通R-） 特別奇襲隊員; 〔英〕 ガールスカウト(Girl Guides)の最年長組の少女.
ranger oneself　（結婚などで）身を固める; 味方する ((with)).

bet

━━ n. 賭(か)け（金，の対象）; 有力候補; 期待に添うもの; 〔話〕 予想; 意見.
one's best bet　最も確実なこと.
hedge [cover] one's bets　2度賭けをする.
━━ v. （～(・ted); -tt-） 賭ける ((on, against)).
bet one's boots [bottom dollar, shirt] on (that) 　〔話〕 …を確信する, 間違いなく…だと思う.
I ('ll) bet　〔話〕 間違いない; 〔反語〕 ほんとかなあ.
You bet!　〔俗〕 きっと; 〔米俗〕 どう致しまして.
You bet?　きっとか.



resplendent
(rĭ-splĕn'dənt)
adj.
Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplendēns, resplendent-, present participle of resplendēre, to shine brightly : re-, re- + splendēre, to shine.]

resplendence re·splen'dence or re·splen'den·cy n.
resplendently re·splen'dent·ly adv.

proffer

Pronunciation: /ˈprɒfə/

Translate proffer | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

[with object]

• hold out or put forward (something) to someone for acceptance:she proffered a glass of wine he proffered his resignation

noun

literary

• an offer or proposal.

Origin:

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French proffrir, from Latin pro- 'before' + offerre 'to offer'