Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tress to a French King, Pompadour was target for the gibes of high-born courtiers from the day she was installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony formulas of the court. Her surname (Poisson, which means fish) was an endless source of cruel merriment...
...canto style. But beside Monteverdi's hopped-up humans, his gods look like so many bank clerks. Poppea's action centers on the infatuation of the Roman Emperor Nero with his mistress, Poppea, an affair held in dubious check by Nero's Stoic mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nero's wife Octavia and Poppea's husband Ottone plot an assassination. Ottone, clad in his own mistress...
...secret police; he was the chief's personal bodyguard, supervised the regime's tortures and executions-and was himself tossed into jail for 18 months when he seemed to be getting too ambitious. After his release last year, Barbot launched a campaign of terror against his old mentor. To Haitians, it was like a choice between a scorpion and a tarantula: "What would you do with a killer who delivered the country of a homicidal maniac...
First, of course, was the continuation of the Profumo Case. In Marylebone Magistrates' Court, Osteopath Stephen Ward, mentor of Christine Keeler and friend of disgraced War Secretary John Profumo, was ordered to stand trial on seven charges of procuring, arranging abortions, and living off the earnings of prostitution. By the close of the three-day hearing, Magistrate Leo Gradwell had permitted numerous witnesses to testify without revealing their identity, even allowed one witness to leave the courtroom shrouded in a topcoat...
...Christine-Profumo affair itself, which, according to Profumo, lasted only a few months, from July to December 1961, but by other evidence possibly lasted longer. During those same months, Christine also entertained Russian Assistant Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, who had been pals for some time with her mentor, Dr. Stephen Ward. M15, British intelligence, apparently discovered only half of what Wilson scathingly called "this dingy quadrilateral." In August 1961, according to the Commons debate, Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook warned Profumo that it would be better for the Secretary for War not to be too friendly with Ward...