Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anyone who has threescore years and ten resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...eventually disillusioned Duke of Buckminster, played with marvelous inflections by Patrick Hines, is the finest of the supporting cast. Margaret Phillips, lurking ominously on the periphery long before she speaks, is deeply penetrating as the widowed Queen Margaret. Terence Scammell is a strikingly handsome and clean-spoken Dorset; Tom Sawyer, a rich-voiced Clarence; John Devlin, a manly Hastings; and Rex Everhart, honing a dagger on his shoe, a memorable First Murderer. Jacqueline Brookes' Elizabeth, unimpressive in her earlier scenes, summons up the requisite power for the interview in which Richard seeks permission to wed her daughter...
Avoid becoming second rate, cautioned Corning Glass Board Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. at Michigan's Albion College: "It is one of the most all-encompassing, intoxicating forces you'll ever come up against." Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...
...Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, jazz musician-D.H. He serves art and humanity at once...
Sometimes the Duke descends to dismayingly unctuous moments on the bandstand; "I love you madly," he will coo, "and the fellows love you madly too." But such lapses do not deter the musician from his work. When 500 fans gathered at Columbia University last month for the Ellington Society's annual tribute to the maestro, the Duke himself appeared to present the musical offering. "I will now rehearse," he said softly, and with that the aging Duke sat down at the piano for an hour of the finest Ellington anyone had heard in years...