Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. An educated North American Indian, who for years has fought a losing fight with the white man's values, goes native again among the South American Indians, and in the green womb of the Amazon finds a spiritual rebirth...
...according to which a man married at 30 and continued his learning, was first appointed to office at 40, promoted, if successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...
...sniped at such obsequies when he wrote of "the full-length engraving of the sublime Snigworth, snorting at a Corinthian column, with an enormous roll of paper at his feet, and a heavy curtain going to tumble down on his head; those accessories being understood to represent the noble lord in the act of saving his country." Dickens himself lies in circumstances of the kind that he once mocked...
...Died. Lord Ismay, 78, Britain's wartime chief of staff and confidante of Winston Churchill, a strapping, pug-jawed soldier who won the respect of Allied brass at conferences from Casablanca to Yalta as Churchill's tough but tactful "man with the oilcan" by putting machinery in motion to implement the statesman's broad decisions and showing a sure diplomatic hand which he later used in 1952-57 as NATO's first secretary-general; of congestive heart failure; in Broadway, England...
Trying Hard. In an almost impossible situation, Lord Coal is nonetheless trying to do his best. One of the country's most polished performers, he flies around visiting coal mines in a $140,000 DeHaviland Dove plane painted in the blue and white colors of the National Coal Board flag. Robens is persistently optimistic about coal's future, insists that Britain's growth will raise consumption and that modernization will make coal competitive. He is squabbling with the Labor government about next year's coal production, which he believes should be 200 million tons instead...