Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solemn Vows. Last week, as high government officials, the hierarchy of the Greek church, leading judges and Members of Parliament gathered solemnly for a candlelight ceremony at the royal palace, new King Constantine kissed a silver-bound Bible, then took the royal oath. "I succeed my father to the throne with the firm determination to follow his lofty example," Constantine declared. "I pledge to serve my country with wholehearted devotion, and all my powers as a vigilant guardian of the free institutions of the democratic regime. My only thoughts and cares will always be the true and supreme interest...
...vast, unique J.M.W. Turner collection; his son (eventually Lord Duveen of Millbank, titled for the medieval name of the Tate's site) added the museum's soaring sculpture hall. Formed five years ago, the Friends of the Tate Gallery, some 830 amateurs who banquet by candlelight three times a year amid the modern sculpture, have already given six Henry Moores, bringing the museum's total to 35, and have widened the U.S. collection with works by Louise Nevelson, Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly. Three years ago, John Hay Whitney, then the U.S. Ambassador, helped found a group...
...barking sea lion in their pool, but after the beast chased Ethel into a parked car, it was sent ott to a zoo. Now the Attorney General and his wife go in for more formal entertaining. Ethel has refurbished Hickory Hill, seats her guests on period chairs, provides candlelight. Ethel tends to greet her guests with an over-the-shoulder "Hi ya kid," but there have been no dunkings lately, and her parties, attended by diplomats, Cabinet members, and Bobby's Justice Department boys...
...maverick yielded to his family's demand that he return home. With him Figueres carried many new ideas. "I wanted to be a pioneer, so I went to the country, set up a farm, and read by candlelight for seven years." "The Struggle Without End," as he called his plantation, quickly became a model of successful and enlightened management. Not without a trace of pride he explains, "We introduced advanced social measures long before social legislation demanded them...
...house is best captured in imagined scenes from the past. One can picture Thomas Oliver sitting on a window seat looking nervously out at the angry crowd on the lawn of his country house; Elbridge Gerry staying up into the late hours, poring over maps by candlelight and contorting electoral districts into weird configurations; James Russell Lowell leading lively discussions in the sitting room, gazing out the window from time to time at the horse chestunt tree he raised from seed; A. Kingsley Porter holding seminars in Fine Arts high on the third floor; Mrs. Porter interviewing visitors...