Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's tangled views of the monarchy will come into focus next week within the ancient limestone walls of Caernarvon Castle. On Tuesday afternoon, the royal carriage procession will jog through the town to the castle's Water Gate. When Charles arrives, the state trumpeters of the Household Cavalry will sound a fanfare. His personal banner, carrying the arms of Llywelyn the Great with the coronet of the Prince of Wales in the center, will be broken out over the castle's Eagle Tower. Then Charles will be conducted by Lord Snowdon, the Constable of the Castle, to the Chamberlain...
...Last year the San Francisco affiliate of the Bank of Tokyo started using line drawings of pine, bamboo and plum trees. In the past month, Bank of America and Crocker-Citizens National Bank have introduced checks with four-color pictures of such California scenes as sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Diego skyline and surfing on the Pacific shores. During the first four weeks, the Bank of America received 60,000 orders for its scenic checks. Some Manhattan banks expect to offer full-color picture checks this fall...
...Americans think that sexual morality is more lax than ever, and they again pinpoint the news media as the principal reason. On the other hand, 16% think that Americans are not really more promiscuous but just talk a lot more about sex. Says Naomi Brock, a South Gate, Calif, housewife: "I suppose it's always been about the same. But it seems more open now, and taken for granted...
Jackpot. The campaign has had its effect on service. Reservation clerks, sporting straw skimmers with hatbands proclaiming "Happiness," give the weather report as they announce the gate number. While demonstrating oxygen masks, stewardesses tell passengers about the epicurean banquet that lies ahead. One Pittsburgh cargo handler helped his group win by carrying a big box out to a shipping customer's car, stowing it in the trunk, then walking around to open the car door-and bowing...
Nabokov's literary province is a bizarre, aristocratic, occasionally maddening amusement park in part devoted to literary instruction. It has many sideshows but only one magician. The general public, which chose to read Lolita as a prurient tale of pedophilia, enters through the main gate, hoping to meet the creator of that doomed and delectable child. A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever...