Act I, Scene IV: Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more, But rather wishing a more strict restraint Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.

In studies that use the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), I am treating the CRT as a complex indicator of cognitive ability plus numeracy—but also as an indicator of miserly or nonmiserly thinking dispositions (on the complex psychological components measured by the CRT, see Liberali et al. 2012; Patel et al. 2019; Sinayev and Peters 2015; Stanovich, West, and Toplak 2016; Toplak, West, and Stanovich 2011, 2014a).

The year will be marked with a white stone by the lovers of pianoforti music.