Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old King flew off to vacation in Switzerland with his curvaceous French companion, Josy. There he visited his son, a student at Lausanne University. A few weeks ago, young Charles, after flunking his exams, flew to Burundi, ostensibly to prepare for his father's return in late July. Instead, Charles fired off three telegrams to his father, announcing that he had seized power. Burundi's 2,750,000 inhabitants got the word through a radio broadcast from the capital of Bujumbura, in which Charles denounced the country's politicians for "dereliction of duty, stagnation, hesitation...
...late as 1890, the word "privacy" did not occur in legal literature. In that year a socially prominent young Boston lawyer named Samuel D. Warren took offense at a local gossip sheet that had assiduously reported on every party that he and his wife gave, and they gave many. With a colleague, the young Louis Brandeis, he wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review that first enunciated "The Right to Privacy." The authors' key point, which Brandeis re-emphasized later from the Supreme Court bench: "The right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life...
That Duclc Pond. From the solemn solidity of his oils to the airy sprinkle of his watercolors (see opposite page), Homer made reality serve his intense colorism. From the late 1880s on, wherever he traveled, he snapped away with his Eastman Kodak No. 1. Using photos and drawing upon his early training as a lithographer, he captured actuality, studied its nature, and then bent it to his artist's will. In The Lookout, Homer used a Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship...
...Easy as Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced...
...late October, 1956 came the Anglo-French-Israeli attack, and the canal was blocked by bombing and by hulks sunk by the Egyptians. A U.N. salvage effort, directed by U.S. Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, cleared the canal the following April, earlier than expected...