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...third Earl was equally silent for 32 years. The fourth Earl kept up the family tradition, but the legendary Leicester patience has at last run out. The present Earl, 63-year-old Thomas William Edward Coke has risen after only 22 years of silence to make his maiden speech. His subject: pollution. "I hope we shall use safer chemicals in place of those which have devastated the countryside," he said...
...Metropolitan Opera, Sir Rudolf Bing last week played out the last days of his 22-year regime as general manager-declining farewell-party invitations, phoning instructions to his staff, checking on arrangements in the auditorium. One flight upstairs, in a cubbyhole barely big enough for one Valkyrie maiden, General Manager-Designate Goeran Gentele of Sweden prepared to take over next September -negotiating union contracts, lining up repertory, auditioning new singers...
...position of women in particular in Japan is strange to us. Until recently either a woman married or retired to maiden aunthood, or she became a prostitute. The prostitutes were often women or great culture and provided men with the only intelligent female conversation around, for wives were generally little more than child-bearers and tea-servers. Kenji Mizoguchi, director of Utamaro and His Five--Women, (1946), is regarded as the women's champion among Japanese film directors, yet even he takes what in another context would be an extremely sexist attitude towards them. "He doesn't love me," says...
...living ex-husband named Mr. Otto Otto and a dead husband named Mr. Carlyle? Was I married to Mr. Carlyle Otto first, being now divorced from subsequent husband Walters (acceptable to Emily Post)? Or have I (also by her rule) a living ex-husband named Mr. Otto, my maiden name having been Miss Louise Carlyle? Perhaps I have two dead husbands, a living ex-husband named Walters, a living husband named Mr. James Otto, and my own given name of Carlyle! Have I a living husband named Mr. Otto with whom I am not living? Am I living with...