Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband has no title and works for a living, but Princess Alexandra, 26, was hardly rewriting Cinderella. Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, is the handsome, well-heeled second son of the Earl of Airlie, whose ancient Scottish clan (motto: "To the End") won its English title for supporting Charles I in the Civil War-and lost it for 81 years after fighting with Bonnie Prince Charlie against Alexandra's ancestor, George II. After Eton, Oxford and the Scots Guards, Ogilvy joined the investment firm of Harold Drayton, a self-made London multimillionaire whose interests Ogilvy represents (for $300 weekly...
...critics, however, understood his idiom perfectly. "Aïda all' Americana" (Aïda American style), said La Notte, "everything bigger and better than anybody else's." Only the singers noticed that the reviews barely mentioned them at all. "I looked like my grandmother in that ancient costume," said Tenor Bergonzi, "but I don't mind if the directors get the glory today. Opera cannot go on without singers, but it can manage quite well without directors...
...first glance, says Kerr, the multiversity is merely "a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking." Where ancient academies had a single soul, "the multiversity has several-some of them quite good, although there is much debate on which souls really deserve salvation." In form, it is a remarkable consensus of historic patterns-British-oriented undergraduate life, German-modeled graduate studies, American-style service to the state, all of it kept "as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance...
...Ancient Practice. While most countries depend on vocational schools to train their workers. West Germany has the world's largest apprentice population (1,200,000). German industrialists think apprenticeship does the job better, while imbuing the apprentice with a respect for craftsmanship and loyalty to the employer...
...Apprenticeships are offered in 124 trades, ranging from hog raising to organ building, and generally take three years to complete. After passing stiff exams, an apprentice becomes a journeyman -a stage that in medieval times meant that he journeyed about the country to find jobs. Only carpentry retains that ancient practice; on Germany's back roads, the wandering carpenter, dressed in traditional bell-bottom trousers and a widebrimmed felt hat, can still be seen...