Word: consulation
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...served briefly in Hamburg, then was sent to Cambridge University to study Russian. When the Korean war came along, Blake was a British vice-consul in Seoul. Fellow diplomats remember him as convivial, gay, and with a delight in mimicry and dressing up in fancy clothes at costume parties. Blake was grabbed with the other foreigners when the Communists moved in. The North Koreans shipped him off to a detention camp for three years. There, according to Blake's signed statement, he decided that Communism was the better system and deserved to triumph...
...Wolf in the Sheepfold. To their artistic differences, master and disciple then added political ones. David was a passionate partisan of the Revolution; Ingres seemed wholly indifferent to the comings and goings of monarchies, republics and empires. He painted Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor, and when the Bourbons came back, he painted them too. He did a portrait of Louis Phillipe's oldest son, and during the Second Empire he turned out more Napoleons...
...Israel's Sabra sports car with a fiber glass body, a British Ford Consul engine. Top speed: 100 m.p.h. Price...
...Angola's capital city of Luanda, it was the whites who got out of hand. Infuriated by the U.S. vote fortnight ago in favor of a disapproving Security Council resolution aimed at Portuguese rule in Angola, 400 Portuguese settlers rioted for two hours outside the U.S. consulate in Luanda. Shouting "Down with Communism and the partners of the Soviets!" the mob overturned Consul William Gibson's car and, while cops made themselves scarce, dumped it into Luanda harbor...
Getting up from the dinner table one evening last week, a family in suburban Toronto could break out the Remy Martin, drop three fifty-cent pieces into a coin box and watch Menotti's opera The Consul. It was a superb production, prepared especially by a Broadway company with Patricia Neway in her original role...