Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John welcomed more rulers (32) than any other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library...
...attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains one of the truly freewheeling minds of the times, a genuine enfant terrible of letters who frequently is the first to point out that the emperor has no clothes, a totally committed opinionator who scorns to protect his rear and is somehow disarming because of his very gusto...
...Emperor Philip lured 45,000 howling Romans to the Colosseum with a show that featured 60 lions, 30 leopards, 10 tigers, a rhinoceros, and 2,000 gladiators resolved to battle to the death. Today in the U.S., the beasts are all in zoos and the only gladiators around are the extras in Spartacus. But every Sunday from September through December, before their TV sets and in stadiums from coast to coast, some 40 million Americans are enraptured by a modern-day spectacle that even the Romans would enjoy. The game is professional football, now established as the spectator sport...
Lost to the Empire is now both name and glory. The realm, once one, hath fallen in triple lot. No man is Emperor, assessed in thought or honor, For king a kinglet, for realm the realm's dividings...
...From Emperor to Monk. The Crawford collection ranges from pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations...