Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Westminster Abbey had never vibrated to such a rhythm: 2,000 fans clapping as Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, 74, danced and hand-clapped his way down the nave after giving a concert of a dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...
...Margaret Mitchell toyed with the idea of calling it Tote the Weary Load. Her heroine at one time was named Pansy O'Hara. Vivien Leigh got the part in the movie only after David O. Selznick had already burned down the massive sets from King Kong and The Garden of Allah to effect the destruction of Atlanta. Selznick's brother Myron, slightly drunk, pulled up to the glowing ruins and triumphantly presented the young English actress: "I want you to meet your Scarlett O'Hara." Leigh remembered that when she got into Scarlett's costume...
...like to get people early on if they've shown sufficient promise," Nickerson says. "It's sad if every person we give a degree to is somebody who's gotten recognition before. Last year some of our most popular degree recipients had been recognized already--Georgia O'Keeffe and Margaret Mead, for example--but our faculty felt they hadn't received due recognition from the universities...
...Riggs persuaded the oddsmakers, the sportswriters, many casual fans-to say nothing of himself-that he was the favorite? His Mother's Day drubbing of Margaret Court had proved little except that Court rattles easily...
Because for King, the match meant more than money. She believed it a cause, at least as far as Women's tennis goes, a defense of Women's Liberation. She was to be avenger of her oppressed sex, redeemer of Margaret Court's humiliation. And it was this belief that gave all the force to her fight...