Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the upper crust, of course, have always had their country cottages for getting out of town when the weather was hard to take. The Emperor Tiberius, for one. used to beat the Roman heat on the cliffs of Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows...
...were reasonable, no harm would come to him. We would not kill him. Look at the former Emperor of Manchuria. He is very happy...
Sunday, August 5: 10:00 Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event. 2:30 Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch; Brahms; Hayden Variations; Martinu; Fantasies symphoniques; Beethoven; Piano Concerto No.5, Emperor (Serkin...
...have long made desperate attempts to keep cool. In the summer of A.D. 221, Roman Emperor Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts...
...which pays handsome benefits to workers upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...