Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees his wife, then Alexandra. The programmed gears carry Alexandra to António and back...
...quarter of Finland lie above the Arctic Circle. -They had the same great-great-grandfather, Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
...with his Queen, were waiting; water from the River Jordan was sent for the occasion; and the christening robe made for Queen Victoria's children was dug out of the attic for him to wear. But none of that made the slightest impression on the son of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy. Just like any other healthy ten-week-old, he let out a sharp little yip as he was baptized James Robert Bruce Ogilvy...
Albert died in 1861, a month after learning that his son, then 20, was having a fling with an actress ("You must not, you dare not be lost," he wrote to Edward). A year later "Bertie" was married to Denmark's Alexandra, "the most beautiful Princess in Europe," and shortly thereafter Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds withdrew into almost total seclusion. Bertie was left with an income of roughly $550,000 a year, no tutors, and a great deal of free time...
Miss Barbara Groneweg, West German educator and political scientist, is planning to study adult education programs and volunteer political activity in the United States. Dr. Alexandra Pittelli, of Brookline, will complete training for her residency in pediatrics and at the same time fulfill the requirements for board certification...