Word: courtiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen's Fingers. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, who probably owned the altarpiece, headed a gay and lively court in Visegrad. When, one day in 1329, a berserk courtier tried to assassinate her husband and children, the Queen helped fight off the assassin. In the defense she lost four fingers of her right hand-"that hand," as a monk-chronicler put it, "which she extended so many times to the poor and miserable." Beautiful, bountiful and (thanks largely to gold mines that she owned) enormously rich, the Queen became more devout than she had ever been before...
Speeth junked the books. Appealing to his children's imaginations, Speeth substituted T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Later, in fifth grade, he handed out mimeographed excerpts from Baldassare Castiglione's 16th century Book oj the Courtier. He soon had youngsters memorizing Yeats and Shakespeare -and writing creditable poetry...
...idea for ending the civil war in Laos. Last week the most peaceable man around, King Savang Vatthana, had his try. Clad in a gold-buttoned tunic, grey pantaloons and black silk stockings, the King plucked a pink folder from atop a silver urn proffered by a kneeling courtier. In cadenced, elegant French, he read a message to "the countries of the world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos of all foreign bases...
...There are no "new men" in these two books, and none of those reflections on the rift between the "two cultures," scientific and humanist, that have recently catapulted Snow into the role of a space-age sage. But the hero and narrator is, as always, Lewis Eliot-a wily courtier of success, in law, college, and government administration, and a kind of modern Polonius...
...goes further. Pages call the audience to attention with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...