Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radios, they might have been the last people in Tokyo to hear the news. When Crown Princess Michiko was delivered of her 5-lb. 9-oz. son last week, a chamberlain at the hospital solemnly telephoned the residence of the grand chamberlain. The grand chamberlain in turn telephoned the Emperor's personal chamberlain, who daintily brushstroked the news onto a scroll. Then the grand chamberlain telephoned Crown Prince Akihito's chamberlain, who immediately went to work on a scroll of his own. By the time the frazzled Akihito finally got to the palace hospital, his princess was already...
...archive) a sequence in which Mrs. Alfred Dreyfus leaves the Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie...
Came the Revolution. George Sand's grandmother once told her that "the Revolution brought old age into the world." Certainly, the tumbrils seemed to cart off some of the zest of Author Epton's chronicle. Napoleon, the self-made emperor, bolted his love affairs the way he bolted his meals. Lovers, who had been pretty vigorous since the Renaissance, again began to talk about dying. A book on How to Succeed in Love, published in 1830, suggested fainting fits, attacks of hysteria, and suicide threats. Morbid romanticism subsequently gave way to liaisons based on credit ratings. Toward...
...used to be a fond hope that the reticent and captive Hirohito would soon abdicate (he is only 59) in Akihito's favor. To quiet such rumors, the seyen chamberlains announced that construction will begin as soon as possible on a new $20 million palace for Emperor Hirohito since his present modest villa-which was formerly the imperial air-raid shelter-is beneath the dignity of a reigning monarch...
Caligula, an early work (1944) by the late novelist-playwright Albert Camus, is a study of the fourth and weirdest of the twelve Caesars, which seeks to show that there was a kind of existentialist method in the young emperor's madness -a rebellion against the cruel limitations of the human condition. Star: Kenneth (Look Back in Anger) Haigh, with Colleen Dewhurst. The New Haven Register's Robert J. Leeney called it "brilliant, baffling, raw and rich." (Broadway opening...