Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PALESTINIAN SOLUTION. We took the West Bank from the Kingdom of Jordan in 1967 as the result of a successful counterattack against the Jordanian forces. What is now known as the Kingdom of Jordan is part and parcel of the historic land of Israel, or Palestine, and the British mandate applied to both banks [of the Jordan River]. It is more than two-thirds of the whole territory of historic Palestine. The ethnic group known today as Palestinian Arabs is divided between the East and West Banks. All the inhabitants of Jordan are Palestinians. If Jordan is courageous enough...
...royal clan derives from the Barrymores, with echoes of the Drews. The grande dame who wields the scepter in this kingdom is Fanny Cavendish (Eva Le Gallienne), an ailing titaness of the footlights with the tongue of an asp and a heart of melting butter. But pandemonium is really the ruler of the realm...
...authors turned their nightmare world into a German gothic tale: the Emperor of Atlantis (Baritone Meinard Kraak) has declared a holy war on mankind. Death, overworked, goes on strike. With no one dying, the kingdom is about to burst, and the ruler has to make a deal with Death. "We human beings cannot live without you," the Emperor says and consents to become Death's first victim if he will return...
...solos varied in quality, with several striking performances among them. In his shining green and white shirt, Michael Russell took hold of one's soul with his dramatic version of "I Found God." The choir smoothly changed the tempo with "Keys to the Kingdom," and Evelyn Woodward picked up the fast, rocking beat in her solo. A better sound system, however, would have helped even the best of the soloists...
Waugh's youth was by no means blighted. His family was congenial-his father Arthur ran a small but prestigious publishing house-and lived comfortably in a London suburb, amid books and talk of books. The adolescent Evelyn saw Oxford as a kind of enchanted kingdom. For a time he became one of its leading fauns, an aesthete shuttling between Hamletic conversation and Falstaffian drinking. After graduation, Waugh had a desultory try at being an artist. Failing at that, he became a teacher at third-rate boarding schools. He began a book, informing the curious that he was writing...