Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafted. Harvard Senior Joseph Blatt learned on the same day that he was one of 24 members of his class chosen for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and tenth in the lottery. He is almost sure to be called, as is Seth Grossman, chairman of the Duke University chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. "I support the war," he said, "but I like it better on TV." His date came up 14th...
...dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini...
Mujica-Lainez focuses this aesthetic and religious conflict in the mind and body of Bomarzo's Duke Orsini. He recreates him as a hunchback who tells the story of his life as an omniscient observer, not only aware of his own time but of events from the time of his death until the present. Mujica-Lainez's implication is clear: Orsini's true immortality resides not in the few historical facts and artifacts we know but in his re-creation as a fictional character...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, jousts verbally with his friendly adversary, the Fourth Estate...
...closer think-alike. "In essence, they're similar." Lerner says. "Both women are extraordinarily independent and vulnerable and feminine. Both lead lives according to their own standards." Although she never married, Coco Chanel's celebrated affairs kept the Continent buzzing during the 1920s and 1930s. When the Duke of Westminster proposed, her rejection was a classic: "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster-but there is only one Chanel." She seems to have had second thoughts, however. "There's nothing worse than solitude," she now says, "growing old without a shoulder on which to lean. Marry, marry...