Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE AND THE FOUR KINGS (431 pp.)-Amy Kelly-Harvard University...
...young Queen of France was bored. "I thought to have married a king," Eleanor of Aquitaine complained to her intimates, "but find I have wed a monk...
...disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes the Bee's workers and coaxes better copy out of them...
...Admirers of F.D.R. who have as much" faith in the U.S. as Roosevelt had will feel that the nation would have survived. At times, Gunther's bald style fails him and his subject entirely: "Young Roosevelt was still at Harvard. Presently he found himself in love with Eleanor. He kept this passion a great secret, however; he did not even tell his roommate . . . Late in 1903 he asked her to marry him, and she at once accepted." The Roosevelt romance will probably get more imaginative treatment...
Speaking with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on a Lowell Insitute-WEEI forum, Chafee declared that initial international efforts at establishing human rights should start with "the kind of rights which a court can enforce...