Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yonkers Raceway, which involved an amazingly low Exacta payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race for standardbreds, and the middle leg of the Triple Crown for three-year-old male trotters,*the Hambo was a reminder of the luster that once belonged to a sport redolent with nostalgia and grassroots Americana...
...should be beset in this day and age by a holy war. Ulstermen themselves have often argued that the real issue is not religion but a complex combination of economics (an entrenched Protestant majority preserving its job preferences over a poorer Catholic minority) and political allegiance (to the British Crown or to a reunited Ireland). But as Irish Scholar Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leader of the Irish Labor Party, once observed, such arguments seem mostly designed to serve an Ulsterman's need for a particular image of himself and his nation. That image, "if not altogether respectable...
...want to go out as did his neighbor in Portugal, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who suffered a stroke and lived his last two years in a twilight zone of helpless incomprehension. More important, Franco, a lifelong monarchist, knows that in Spain there is no great affection for the crown. He also knows that many of his associates, including his probable choice for Prime Minister, Vice President Luis Carrero Blanco, would probably make no effort to restore the monarchy. If Franco does not put a king back upon the throne, no one else will...
...frightened; she ages gently into the grand old Queen, beloved of her subjects and even in his deepening hysteria for a son, by her husband and King. Finally, we see her as a sick and aged woman, bewildered by events that have taken from her both husband and crown. As Henry's last Queen, Rosalie Crutchley effectively plays a staunch Catherine Parr, a waspish and religious woman with pursed face and stern views on a woman's duty both to Christ and to her husband. Miss Crutchley's Catherine is determined and unyielding as she saves herself...
...similar to Long Boy's, Joe David Brown, 56, is a native of Birmingham and a former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling for the Depression-era South, and the touches of nostalgia that hover like hummingbirds over his narrative are most often exactly right -like Addie's partiality to strawberry Nehi and Nu Grape or a quick, vivid portrait of a small-time fair...