Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-seasoned European royalty. Achille Murat Bonaparte, son of Caroline, found that his title (Crown Prince of Naples) was getting him nowhere and decamped for Florida, where he became postmaster of Tallahassee and married a great-niece of George Washington's, thus complying with Napoleon I's edict to the American Bonapartes to marry only into the Washington and Jefferson families. Socially, the most successful of the second generation aside from Louis-Napoleon himself was Prince Napoleon Bonaparte ("Prince Plon-Plon"), son of Jérôme; he married the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel...
Last Survivors. Julian's career was as spectacular as it was brief. Nephew of Constantine the Great, he was born in Constantinople and trained, by imperial edict, for a career in the church. But in the course of a visit to Nicomedia, he came under the influence of apostate theoreticians secretly working toward a return to the old faith-or rather, to an idealized amalgam of paganism and philosophy that they took for the faith of the ancient world. Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints...
...tradition, all the female dancers were drawn from the village that had taken up the challenge. The hosts were, by immutable tribal lore, much more severely restricted and as a result, somewhat at a disadvantage. Here, the girls of marriageable age were, by time honoured edict, by a veritable law of the Medes and Persians which changed not, segregated and formed into a compact mass, separate and distinct, "of" but not "in," the ranks of the general audience...
...Teacher Novak confronted a "typical" U.S. high school. While hordes of undisciplined adolescents rush about to the beat of jazz music, a flock of frightened new teachers get a speech from the principal (Dean Jagger). Never get "personal" with students, says he; take all problems to administrators. Rejecting that edict, Mr. Novak gets personally interested in a bright kid who wants to drop out-and settles his problems in a 90-second confrontation. "A born teacher," mutters the principal magnanimously. "He knows when to break the rules...
...Catholics. Besides the thousands martyred by Buddhists in China, India, Ceylon, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Siam, Burma and Malaya, the extremely conservative martyrology of the church lists eight bishops, 184 priests, 2,370 nuns and 75,380 lay persons beheaded, strangled, starved or dismembered by Vietnamese Buddhists between the Edict of Jan. 6, 1833 and the Peace of June...