Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
Butlers & Bedspreads. Swimming pools, cocktail lounges, restaurants, wall-to-wall carpeting and TV-nowadays, they are just the beginning. Guests at the four su-permotels of the Aristocrat chain in Chicago hardly notice such conveniences when they are ensconced in the "Rogue Room"at the Essex Inn, which is decorated with paintings of nude ladies and boasts a circular bed surrounded by a curtain of beads, or in Room 908 in Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where...
...Aristocrat chain's $20 million, 75O-room McCormick Inn, which will have three swimming pools, six restaurants, a toboggan slide and a putting green...
Toiling for Transition. In Peru the military target was not Prado, a conservative banker and aristocrat at the end of his term. The rebellion was against the government that would succeed him. For months the military had vowed that they would not permit the coming to power of Haya de la Torre, chief of the leftist-turned-moderate APRA party, which has been engaged in a bitter, sometimes bloody dispute with the army for more than 35 years. When Haya led the balloting by some 14,000 votes in the June 10 elections but fell short of winning the constitutionally...
...went about with my brush touching up and toning down. A very pretty chiaroscuro you'll find in my track!" A failure in America, he goes to England, where the charm of the rain-wet countryside convinces him that life must be gentler there. He visits an aristocratic relative, dreams of living on his sumptuous estate and marrying his sister. But though the English countryside is gentle, the sour old aristocrat is not. After insulting the American, he brutally throws him out. "What a dream!" murmurs the American, soon to die. "What an awakening...