Word: czar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Anna Anderson, 67, who has spent a lifetime seeking to prove that she is in reality the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's murdered Czar Nicholas II; and John E. Manahan, 49, former university lecturer who has backed her case for a decade; she for the second time; in Charlottesville...
...CZAR NICHOLAS and the TOAD...
...that time, the Soviet press described him as a wretched German photographer victimized by "a hoax concocted by J. Edgar Hoover and American authors of lowbrow science fiction." In fact, as Abel now tells it, he was the son of a Russian revolutionary exiled to the far north under Czar Nicholas II. He prepared for his future vocation by distributing Bolshevik literature, beating up "Trotskyites" and studying radio engineering and foreign languages. Now 65, Abel notes that his country, which "values highly the courage, valor and boundless loyalty" of the KGB agent, has awarded him the Order of Lenin...
...leads you to meet a lot of angry young men, and your work is politicized. When the big bust comes, you're dragged in with your pals. Everyone is sentenced to be shot. The guns of the firing squad are cocked when a last second reprieve comes from the Czar (it was staged). The person next to you goes insane. You abjure this possibility, rethink a lot of things, and write Crime and Punishment...
...former governor of the Bank of England. Cobbold is generally respected for his liberal views on what is dramatically permissible, but many of his predecessors have been less enlightened. George Bernard Shaw once complained that the Lord Chamberlain "robs, insults, and suppresses me as if he were the Czar of Russia. I must submit in order to obtain from him an insolent and insufferable document [the license] which I cannot read without boiling of the blood...