Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rewarded his ministers with handfuls of newly minted gold coins. In a family tableau showing the continuity of the Pahlevi line, the Shah, the Empress and the Crown Prince inaugurated a new TV station in Teheran. In his first speech to the country, the tiny Reza said: "My dear countrymen and sisters, I wish you a happy new year...
England had an internationally renowned theater a century before it had an artist even known by most of his countrymen. During the early 18th century, William Hogarth became Britain's first great painter, winning that distinction with an art charged more with dramatic subject matter than seductive style. He called himself an "author" rather than an artist, and works came out like serial scenes of a play. He illustrated a rake's progress in eight pictures, a harlot's downfall in six. "My picture is my stage," he wrote, and he made it roar with rogues...
...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...
Françoise Hardy is perhaps the newest and prettiest star from France, but she says that she can't sing or act-and "to pick up a mirror is to become demoralized." Her modesty is becoming, and her countrymen obviously forgive her. At 22, she sells more recordings than any other French songbird; she has been put into films with some success by Vadim, and only men become demoralized by her figure...
...Paris patron, Sylvia Beach, wrote to George Bernard Shaw, offering to sell him an early copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained: "I did not burn...