Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the past year, some Britons have said some harsh public things about their Queen. In their opinion, Elizabeth was too "aloof"; her stilted speechmaking was "a pain in the neck." Neither Queen nor court made any reply. Last week the time came for the monarch's Christmas Day broadcast, and for the first time, the speech was televised. It was the Queen's first personal TV appearance in Britain, and she went to great pains to prove her critics wrong...
...spoiled his day - became the first British monarch to .speak ("from my home and from my heart. . .to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them") to his subjects over the radio. Elizabeth's father George VI insisted on making the broadcast even while wasting away after the removal of a lung, painfully recording a phrase or two at a time in an agonizing ordeal that took two days...
...Royal Film Performance in London this fall, Queen Elizabeth II faced a scrawny, sharp-featured young man with shaggy blond hair lying like a bunch of damp seaweed across his forehead. How, the Queen asked, did he like movie work...
...DIARY OF "HELENA MORLEY" (281 pp.)-Translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went to live in Brazil, it had become famous there. Now handsomely translated for the first time into English by Poet Bishop, the book proves appealing, though it is scarcely the work of a genius...