Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British public was in love with Diana. Men loved her for obvious reasons. Women loved her, as has been said many times since she died, because she went public with many of their concerns. She was not afraid to moan and cry and admit her vulnerability. She wasn't afraid to behave badly...
...could say, if you wrote down Diana's life story on the back of a postcard, that no one ever lived who was less like one of us. She was born into one of the oldest and grandest aristocratic families in England. She was always very rich, and in latter years she was extravagant on a scale that would have made Marie Antoinette blush. But the crowds were not wrong to suppose that she was one of us--any more than an earlier generation was wrong to feel that the Queen Mum (equally aristocratic and remote in reality from...
...think the King knows all about me?" asks the child of Alice in A.A. Milne's poem. Diana's star quality was that she made us all believe, in our fantasy life, that she did know all about...
...along with 450 brothers in a separate men's order. Mother Teresa created a network of 569 missions spread across 120 nations that operate workshops for the unemployed, food centers, orphanages, leprosariums, and refuges for the insane, retarded and aged. She won access to global leaders; she counted Princess Diana a personal friend; Pope John Paul II valued her as a revered colleague...
Literature has better consolations than either life or tabloids. After Diana's funeral one wistfully looks up the quote at the end of George Eliot's Middlemarch and reads: "... For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs...