Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undeterred by an unseasonal dusting of snow, Emperor Hirohito and several other members of the imperial family trooped into their private box last week as the strains of Kimi-ga-yo, Japan's national anthem, wafted over the Senri Hills near Osaka. While multicolored flags and paper cranes swirled about them in the brisk breezes, cannons boomed a five-gun salute and a 100-piece orchestra blared Fanfare of the 21st Century, a piece specially written by composer Masaru Sato. Then two giant robots clanked into Festival Plaza, disgorging 110 members of a children's band who launched...
...Dune Messiah takes up the story after the end of the jihad-holy war-which has made Paul the emperor and the deity of the known universe. As his empire grew, his psychic powers have grown, until he is forced to rely on them totally. But total prescience is a trap-it removes him from his sources of strength and turns his allies into tools...
...tribe who exist in total secrecy on the face of the desert. Their terrible purpose-to change the planet's ecology totally and transform it into a fertile land-is the force which transforms Paul Atreides into Muad'dib, a semidivine military leader who eventually topples the Emperor and becomes master of the Galaxy. Melange-an addictive spice grown only on Arrakis-gives Muad'dib the power of prerecognition which allows him to seize the moment and turn it to his advantage...
...Emperor's New Clothes all over again," said the ad, which promoted a Madison Square Garden rally to raise campaign funds for antiwar Senate candidates. Among the scheduled speakers: Ramsey Clark, I. F. Stone and Julian Bond. The cartoon was hardly a contribution to the national debate, and few other countries in the world would casually allow their Chief of State to be depicted so contemptuously. But the U.S. presidency has survived sharper lampooning. Actually, the present instance might have been worse. The artist, Robert Grossman, originally had the whole crew walking along naked. The Times rejected that version...
...descended from the practitioners of such despised occupations as leatherworking and butchering, are Japan's closest equivalent to India's untouchables; there are 1,000,000 of them, living in slums, working as ragpickers or worse, and rarely able to marry outside their class. At the top is Emperor Hirohito, who lives serenely in Tokyo's Imperial Palace with Empress Nagako and devotes most of his time, as ever, to his studies in marine biology...