Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater's vote against cloture and the civil rights bill: is it not time to dust off a few campaign slogans for the white knight? How about the Civil War Copperhead appeal: "The Constitution as it is, the Union as it was, and the Negroes where they...
...both Drama Critics Circle awards as best play and best musical; Socialite Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, 44, made a Dame of the Order of Isabel La Catolica, one of Spain's highest honors, in recognition of her charity work for that country; Bandleader Lawrence Welle, 61, created a Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Paul VI for his "wholesome family entertainment...
...playing pieces to be symbols of themselves. The bishop was simple to design-a cross. The rook was square for solidity; the king was a diamond for a regal quality; the queen was a circle for femininity; the pawns were arrows for their singleness of direction. Ortman gave the knight the shape of a heart, for "it is impulsive and moves erratically...
...elegant illusion. He analyzes the exacting geometry which the Renaissance artist imposed on his curvy allegory of the feverish season of love, spotlighting by colored panels the gestures that narrate the painting. As on the chessboard, where the rational, 64-square battleground can scarcely contain the emotional knight, Ortman does not let the truth of his analysis overwhelm beauty...
Charlie mostly puts words in motion without putting believable characters or fresh ideas in significant conflict. True, Seymour is a shy, pure knight of conscience with a 20-20 vision of ethics, and he finally tilts fearlessly with his friend Charlie, but the reversal of roles is too belated to be convincing. The open stage is maddeningly unsuitable for Charlie, so that the drawing-room setting seems perched in a furniture salesroom waiting to be price-tagged for clearance...