Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot return to dead cultures, ancient languages, and the Legend of the Fisher King? Did not Yeats sustain himself on the Irish folklore? Did not Lawrence traipse across continents to Mexico, seeking the meaning of the Aztecs, the wisdom of primitive...
Shakespeare's quartet of plays deals, in a new symbolic way, with the bonds of friendship and blood. Basic to all four, more specifically, are an estrangement-remorse-reconciliation theme, first attempted (but ending differently) in King Lear, and the idea of grace, a more Christian grace than that found in Macbeth. Near the start of all four, a father loses a child through his own fault...
...unequal battle: Iraq has fewer than 6,000,000 people, Egypt more than 22 million. When Nasser seized power in neighboring Syria last February and proclaimed the United Arab Republic, Iraq countered on February 14 by merging with its Hashemite brother, Jordan, in the Arab Union, Iraq's King Feisal became the head of the union, but the Constitution provided that in his absence, authority would pass to his young cousin, King Hussein of Jordan. Should Hussein now call for outside help, this clause might prove crucial in establishing the legitimacy of foreign intervention...
...right with everybody. Besides, Sam Sary was somebody special. As a delegate to the Geneva Conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war in 1954, Sam Sary had become a hero by leading the fight to prevent partition of Cambodia between Communists and nonCommunists. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the King who resigned to become Cambodia's Premier, rewarded his longtime friend and admirer (Sary is the Prince's biographer) by promoting Sary to the vice-premiership...
Died. Maurice Rentner, 69, "The King" of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Polish-born leader of U.S. fashion, who fought design piracy in and out of the garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...