Word: egalitarian
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...Palace near Stockholm. King Gustaf succeeded to the throne in 1907, held it longer than any other monarch in Sweden's history. He reigned through a gradual revolution which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded his subjects who was king. Lifelong outdoor man, ardent hunter, he popularized tennis in Sweden as a young...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
...egalitarian treatment of geese and swans, she writes with such grace and elegance that she is always worth reading. Her own virtues bring her home even when she is farthest off the beam. It is a joy to read her preface to 19th Century Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas; seen through the delicate, complex lenses of the Bowen prose, it seems a masterpiece. But anyone who takes the preface away from his eye, and looks squarely at the book, will see only a first-rate thriller about a mid-Victorian miss pursued by a bogeyman...
...Dangerous Liability. Indo-China is no longer a golden asset for France. As everywhere in the East, the old colonialism has died beneath the impact of Western nationalist, egalitarian ideas, a process greatly hastened by the Japanese march in World War II under the slogan "Asia for the Asiatics." The French have bowed grudgingly to the times...
...charge has been made. Vice-President Reynolds has proclaimed that Adams is not blessed above the other Houses. The egalitarian trumpets have sounded...