Word: kensington
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...argues that the technopolitan secular man, the hero of religious liberals of the early sixties, the man who had "come of age" and was too tough and self-sufficient to feel a need for religion, exists only on certain Ivy League university campuses. You won't find him in Kensington or South Boston or Queens...
...such a will, even her childhood would have been insupportable. Her father, one of the brutish Hanoverian dukes, died when she was only one year old. The widowed duchess then came under the influence of an Irish swindler named John Conroy. It was he who set up the famous "Kensington system" for rearing Victoria. Its aim was to make her totally dependent upon her pathetic mother and so, by remote control, upon Conroy. Little Victoria had to sleep in her mother's room. She could never be alone. But she rarely had company of her own age-except Conroy...
...drafty isolation cell of Kensington Palace, with only her beloved governess Lehzen to moderate Conroy's schemes, Victoria was the object of endless political intrigue between court factions who wanted to influence the future monarch. "I will be good," the 11-year-old Victoria exclaimed with fervor when Lehzen revealed to her that one day she would be Queen. But life, meanwhile, was cruelly tedious. "I am very fond of pleasant society," she complained when 16, "and we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace. I longed sadly for some gaiety." The princess...
...catch than their male counterparts. They are seldom seen swaggering, boasting or clustering in gangs, and they affect no distinctive style of dress or appearance. Male criminals generally are products of the poorer sections of London, but some of the bovver birds come from such tony neighborhoods as Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea...
...Israeli embassy in London's fashionable Kensington district had been warned by intelligence agents to expect some sort of terrorist attack, and particularly to be on the lookout for parcel bombs sent through the mail. But in the rush to distribute incoming mail after the three-day Yom Kippur weekend, no one paid any particular attention to four slim letters that had been airmailed from Amsterdam and hand-addressed to individual embassy staffers. Three of the letters were never opened. But Agricultural Counselor Ami Shachori, 44, nonchalantly ripped open the fourth without even interrupting the conversation he was having...