Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example of self-mastery through moderation. He is great for leaving Dido; Antony for joining Cleopatra. In Vergil love is the divine demoniacal; in Shakespeare what is best is demonic and divine. For Cleopatra, as for Dido, rule and passionate love prove irreconcilable, as Charmian's farewell line "Your crown's awry" beautifully explains. Death for both women brings no diminution of majesty but its highest pitch. Cleopatra, like Dido, loves without bound because she is natively glorious. But Cleopatra, who does not share Dido's shame, dies in knowledge of self-redemption. She loves Antony as she loves herself...
...Crown Prince Akihito of Japan must have glowed with pride over his daughter Princess Nori as she was photographed at Togu Palace in Tokyo on her first birthday. With regal bearing, earnest mien and a firm grip on her free-form hobbyhorse, Nori looked ready to take the helm of the ship of state...
Despite injuries to five of its top performers, the freshman track team outran all opposition in the Greater Boston Track Championships Tuesday and Wednesday to win the GBC crown by 70 points...
Bolstered by several superb penformances, the Harvard track team successfully completed the annual defense of its Greater Boston Championship crown yesterday at Boston College. The Crimson added ten first-place tallies to its two victories on Tuesday to topple runner-up Northeastern by a 128-61 score. Boston College was third in the seven-team field with 57 points and Boston University was fourth with...
...other field events. John Avault will be defending his triple jump crown and Jim Coleman will try for a second straight high jump victory...