Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander III...
Surprises Under the Grime. It took more than water. It took a long-ignored Second Empire decree signed by Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France...
...Richard III was a smash hit from the start. The Elizabethans loved it, and it was printed several times before the 1623 folio collection. Henceforth over the centuries the title role worked as a magnet on the greatest actors more strongly than any other Shakespearean part...
...command of his craft. Here he was trying to out-Kyd Marlowe, but he could not match the variety and richness of Marlowe's Edward II. In the years immediately following, however, Shakespeare's skill advanced markedly, as evidenced by Richard II, his first really great serious drama. Richard III, the capstone of an historical tetralogy, is far inferior to the much lesser-known Richard II for many of the reasons that Henry V, capstone of his other historical tetralogy, falls far short of Henry...
...Richard III is, except for Hamlet the longest of all the plays; and it is, unlike Hamlet, repetitious, monochromatic, unyielding, and actually quite shallow. It does not leave enough unsaid; in fact, again and again we are told what is going to happen, we see it happen, and then we are told what we have just seen...