May 2012
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Murray Kempton on William F. Buckley Jr.’s campaign for mayor of NYC:
“an Edwardian resident commissioner reading aloud the 39 articles of the Anglican establishment to a conscript of assembled Zulus.”
Fourteenth century plague doctors who wore a bird-like mask were referred to as “beak doctors”.[6][7][8] Straps held the beak in front of the doctor’s nose.[9] The mask had glass openings for the eyes and a curved beak shaped like a bird’s. The mask had two small nose holes and was a type of respirator which contained aromatic items.[10]
The beak could hold dried...
