Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close to Tears. "Long Live the King, Long Live the Queen," roared the throngs as Baudouin and his bride went to the throne room of the Palace of Brussels for the civil-marriage ceremony prescribed by Belgian law. An estimated 150 million watched the pageant on a Europe-wide TV hookup. Fabiola was nervous. When the 20-foot train of her mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective...
...Spanish violets. In the ranks of honor, with the royalty and the beribboned ambassadors of 67 nations, sat six Congolese army officers.* As they entered the church, Fabiola once again almost tripped over her train, but this time Baudouin straightened it out himself and led his bride down the great center aisle to the altar. After the ceremony, cannon boomed, bells pealed, and a thousand doves spiraled upward into the dark, wintry skies...
...Gift of God." In Hindu and Moslem India, there are no clear-cut religious objections to either contraception or sterilization, but most Indians believe that children are a "gift of God," and well-wishers at wedding ceremonies toast the bride by saying "May you have a hundred sons." The toast is not taken lightly: the average Indian mother has 6.5 children. Orthodox Hindus believe that a son must preside over their funeral rites if they are to enter heaven, and India's high child-mortality rate makes it imprudent for a father to consider sterilization until his children...
...During the stillnesses, the narrative wanders to the old tales of what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...
Into all this, Williams has injected much enlivening comedy-now in terms of character (the bride can be wonderfully, Williamsly Suth'n), now in terms of situation, now of talk. Moreover-which is the play's new wrinkle, the key to its change of key-Williams is suggesting that, far from so many people having hideous lives and fates, most people really needn't suffer from even the milder, more widespread afflictions. He has called off the bloodhounds at last, and would simply have people try harder to cooperate and understand...