Word: emperor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peking in the 1420s on how to get out of Vietnam. Two groups appeared in the Peking court. One group wanted to get out at all costs, another wanted to stay in. The group that wanted to stay in was composed of generals and court eunuchs. When the emperor that launched the invasion died in 1424, it enabled the people to try and get out, and they finally...
...almost exactly 25 years ago, in May 1950, that TIME ran its first cover story on the fighting in Viet Nam. The face on the magazine's cover then was that of the country's embattled Emperor Bao Dai; the issue was whether the U.S. should heed appeals for American assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous...
...plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...
...began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with the glance of the Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
...easy to imagine the shows as great emperor-without-clothes scenes--the critics and collectors, as Tom Wolfe writes, "now squinting, now popping the eye sockets open, now drawing back, now moving closer--waiting, waiting, forever waiting for...it...for it to come into focus, namely the visual reward (for so much effort) which must be there, which every (tout le monde) knew to be there--waiting for something to radiate directly from the paintings...