Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show his friends one of the New World's greatest archeological glories. Here was the granite observatory where Inca priests marked the solstices and claimed, each June 21 (when their freezing subjects feared midwinter starvation), that they had tied the sun to a stone. There stood the Emperor's palace, and beyond, the convent of the Vestals of the Sun. Just below were the terraces, where corn, potatoes and tomatoes grew long before the white man ever heard of them...
...Emperor Hirohito worried some about newsmen. As his first press conference approached, he asked a U.S. adviser whether it would be impolite to refuse to answer political questions. He was assured 'that it often happens, even in very politically advanced countries...
...Tell them," exclaims Denmark Vesey, the Emperor Jones in face of his imminent downfall, "tell them Denmark Vesey says 'the Day will come.'" Forty years later, the Day did come...
Dorothy Heyward has taken the "Emperor Jones" theme of a man who lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior shell of the failure of a Negro uprising, "Charleston, 1822" stands as a probable explanation of why before 1863 the slaves were not ready for their freedom...
...expecting to see any bright lights," warned Perry Carmichael, once an Oklahoma City teacher, and now Emperor Haile Selassie's director of elementary education. But he did promise 20? butter, 40? chickens, a three-year contract with a starting salary of $3,000 to $4,500 a Year (Oklahoma City's starting salary: $2,000). Besides, he said reassuringly, Haile Selassie is "as amiable as an Oklahoman." The emperor promised to pay passage over, but anyone returning within the first three years will have to pay his or her own way back...