Word: belovedness
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Other afterthoughts were bestowed on European royalty. It was mentioned with a hush that 25 years ago King Edward VII was escorted to his grave by 48 Kings and Princes. Only four sovereigns who wore crowns in Europe then still wear them: Italy's gnarled and hardy little Vittorio...
A cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Tabb Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George. His grandmother Queen Victoria, as most people have forgotten, emphatically was not popular throughout her reign. For years after...
When Sylvia Plath killed herself early on the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, she left behind two children, an estranged, adulterous husband, a note for the baby sitter and a neat black binder containing 40 poems. The contents of that binder would become Ariel, one of the most devastatingly moving...
It's a story that has launched a thousand network-sweeps movies--star with parental issues, beloved by the public but cruel to those closest to him, wildly successful but never satisfied. The HBO difference is in execution. Most notably, Rush, like Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, steps into several roles...
When schools opened in Texas this fall, some favorites were missing from the cafeteria menus: sodas and candy bars had been banned for grade schoolers; chips and cookies were mini-size. And that perennial favorite, the French fry, was given just one more year before it too will be banned...