Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of laborious climbing in a forest of family trees, Debrett's Assistant Editor Patrick Montague-Smith proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony is 22nd in descent from King Edward I's daughter Elizabeth* Moreover, a medieval lord of Harlech was a mutual ancestor of both Tony and Margaret. Exulted Tree Tracer Montague-Smith: "A thrilling discovery! The relationship between Princess Margaret and Mr. Armstrong-Jones really comes to this: they are twelfth cousins, twice removed...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, this sightless author goes on with the fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness. A luminous sequel to its moving predecessor, The Stars Grow Pale...
...other hand, some persons of French descent demand that I renounce the ideal of self-determination, that I say that everything has been done and that the fate of the Algerians has been decided. That I will not do either . . . It will be the Algerians who will say what they want to be. This will not be dictated to them. For if their response were not really their response, then, while for a time there might well be military victory, basically nothing would be settled . . . In short, self-determination is the only policy that is worthy of France...
Bulwarked by the Pyrenees, claiming blood descent from Caesar's conquering legions, culturally close to Southern France, the inhabitants of the province of Catalonia are a proud people who have long been a thorn to the enforced togetherness of Franco Spain. Against Catalan pride, Premier Franco has banned the use of Catalan dialect in newspapers, suppressed Catalan courses in schools. The failure of his efforts was dramatized last week in a threat to the very existence of the biggest and best newspaper in Spain, Barcelona's La Vanguardia Espa...
...between the "lordly" Times (circulation, 600,000) and the ever-popular Daily News (circulation, 2,000,000). The Tribune is uncomfortable in the middle, and passes through alternating cycles of social-climbing and slumming. Tangle Towns was inaugurated during one of the periods when the Trib was in queasy descent to the level of the News...