Word: consorte
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...Consort of Early Music"--Busch-Reisinger at noon...
...South House, for the major musical attraction on campus this week. They are giving a free single performance of Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and Ysaye. These two Harvard talents are always exciting and moving. The Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series is always available; this week's a "Consort of early music." Dunster House Music Society rounds out the weekend with Bach on Friday and a Mendelssohn trio on Sunday afternoon...
Makarios' concern for his flock was always political. He once said: "I would consort with the devil himself if it would keep Cyprus and its people independent." In 1956, as the fighting peaked between the British army and the Cypriots, Anthony Eden's government accused the ethnarch of fomenting rebellion and exiled him to the remote Seychelles Islands 3,000 miles from home. But when the British gave up the fight three years later, Makarios was elected President of the newly independent Republic of Cyprus...
...this a new kind of consort diplomacy? Mrs. Carter [June 6] was unelected, unanointed, unappointed, but she makes a trip that could affect American interests profoundly...
...discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...