Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.)* Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman retell the story of imperial Russia's star-crossed Princess Anastasia, for which Bergman won a 1956 Academy Award.
"A STENCH in the ear," wrote Ambrose Bierce, fulminating against noise in the long tradition of sensitive and thinking men. Marcel Proust was so fastidious about noise that he had his study lined with cork. Juvenal bemoaned the all-night cacophony of imperial Rome, observing that "most sick people perish...
The disappearance of a British colony has always been marked by the pomp and panoply of Britain's imperial traditions. A member of the royal family usually flew out to hand over the articles of independence. The governor general was on hand in his gold-braided uniform and cocked...
Colonial Reminder. At the zenith of Britain's imperial power in the late 1800s, the Colonial Office ruled more than 100 colonies in every quarter of the globe. It might, in fact, have ruled more, but the office got off to a bad start. It was created in 1660...
>CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as...