Word: emperor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AFTER A SERIES of wholly unmemorable fights, the keepers of the boxer's temple proclaimed Joe Frazier the new emperor of Fat City, but the emperor had no clothes...
Pompidou happened to be in the neighborhood, on his way to Ethiopia to repay a visit to France made by Emperor Haile Selassie last year. The territory, known as French Somaliland until 1967, is France's last remaining real estate on the African mainland. It sends one Deputy and one Senator to the French National Assembly. But the colony's voters will hardly play a major role in the French elections in March. In fact, by visiting Djibouti, Pompidou was courting trouble rather than making campaign gains...
...Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...because they are ashamed to admit that segregation exists. Professor Murakoshi sees the salvation of the outcasts only in a wholly unrealistic goal-an end to the monarchy, which even in its postwar, watered-down form remains the country's most revered institution. As Murakoshi sees it, the Emperor symbolizes and enforces the status quo in the Japanese system, and is thus responsible for the plight of the buraku-min. "Just as Japan created a superhuman being," Murakoshi charges angrily, "so it created, by necessity, a class of subhumans...
...Nixon's creation, using the power base of the presidency to roam the world and speak for Nixon, to set the stage for summits, to negotiate war and peace. There have been similar relationships before, but none exactly the same: Richelieu and Louis XIII, Metternich and Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, Harry Hopkins and F.D.R...