Word: heir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who oppose 17th-century absolutism. Orgon, a wealthy and respected Parisian and supporter of Louis XIV, is infatuated by the pretended piety of Tartuffe, whom he has observed sweating blood in church. He welcomes him into his family, embracing him first as a brother, then as an heir when he disowns his skeptical son. Apparently hoping that his association with the pseudo-pious Tartuffe will create for himself a public image of God-fearing moral rectitude. Orgon out-tartuffes Tartuffe and becomes a greater impostor than the master himself. Right up until this comic situation seems on the point...
...hours left until post time, Campo's Media is just one of at least five contenders who have a legitimate chance to run down the currently undisputed king of the three-year olds. Which is somewhat surprising, considering that a few short months ago Foolish Pleasure was the accepted heir to Secretariat's throne, an odds-on choice to become the second Triple Crown winner in 27 years...
...tung. In the midst of these heady successes, Chiang took a portentous step in his personal life, marrying Soong Meiling, a delicately beautiful, Wellesley-educated younger sister of Sun Yat-sen's widow. In doing so he put aside his first wife, the mother of his son and heir, Taiwan's current Premier Chiang Ching-kuo; he became a convert to Christianity before the wedding...
...brothers, who wanted to limit the power and influence of the omnipresent Sudeiris; for example, Prince Sultan is Minister of Defense, Prince Ahmed is deputy governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
Prince Fahd, on the other hand, is likely to be the most dynamic heir apparent that Saudi Arabia has ever had. In both style and personality, the affable, perpetually smiling Fahd is a sharp contrast to the dour, ascetic Faisal. Nonetheless the two men worked well together. "Fahd was like the student to the professor," remarked a Western diplomat in Riyadh last week. "In many ways he is a copy of King Faisal...