Word: kinglet
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...real loser seems to be that perpetual kinglet, Prince Charles, and here again it's hard to muster much sympathy. By his own account, he lacked the courage to reject a loveless marriage; once in it, he lacked the discipline or grace to try to make it work. Instead of rebelling against his mother and the institution she represents, he seems to have turned his bitterness against his hapless bride. So the revenge Di now seeks fits all too well. If she succeeds in her campaign to have the crown bypass him and go directly from Queen Elizabeth to young...
...beginning, Dubuffet appealed to Ubu buffs: people with a taste for the macaronic and the absurd, who saw in his work a visual resurgence of the antiauthoritarian wit whose chief image in French literature was the grotesque kinglet of Poland invented nearly a century ago by Alfred Jarry in his play Ubu Roi. From the moment Ubu waddled onstage and pronounced his first line, "Merdrrre!," the vaporous culture of Symbolism was on the way out and something newer and indubitably nastier was on its way in. "After us the Savage God," noted W.B. Yeats, who was in the audience that...
...production at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, the clash of wills between King Pentheus of Thebes and the god Dionysus is somewhat muffled, despite Michael Cacoyannis' incisive direction and his crisply idiomatic translation. John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery...
...marked bird that he is-though most country strollers only see him taking off ahead of them with a flash of white rump. In an engagingly informal text, Porter is most fascinating describing the lengths to which a bird photographer will go to get results. Once, to reach a kinglet's nest, he simply sawed off a tree at its base, keeping it upright, and lowered it 40 feet. The kinglet did not seem to mind...
Lost to the Empire is now both name and glory. The realm, once one, hath fallen in triple lot. No man is Emperor, assessed in thought or honor, For king a kinglet, for realm the realm's dividings...