Word: monarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MERRY MONARCH: THE LIFE AND LIKENESS OF CHARLES II (274 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave for Switzerland for medical treatment. King Saud, 58, looking more regally splendid than ever in his new style of democratic monarch, took off for Jidda and Mecca to welcome the year's first pilgrims at the holy places of Islam...
...across the U.S.: Who's next? A few of the remaining 13 Hearst papers, e.g., the San Antonio Light (circ. 107,483) and the Albany Times-Union (circ. 67,629) still look strong. But even the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst's first paper, which proclaims itself "the monarch of the dailies," faces serious challenge as the city's largest newspaper. In the last ten years, while the Examiner took on 54,520 new subscribers, the rival Chronicle gained 103,401, has narrowed the circulation gap from 65,880 to a slender 16,999. Elsewhere, the picture...
...reliefs shown on the following pages portray the king in happier times. For the Assyrians, the hunt was an art in itself. The king's men would release a captive lion from a cage so that the king could first wound him with arrows. At last the monarch would step forward, his left arm wrapped in a heavy cloth (which the artist here omits so as not to disfigure the king). As the lion reared for the last time, the king would plunge his weapon through the great beast's body...
...with age and touched with pathos. But. more than that. Henry IV draws near his end, and soon a playboy Hal's untroubled head must wear the crown. Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making of a king. The self-condemning new voung monarch is suddenly self-reformed, is indeed a little holier-than-thou, and a great deal royaler, as he moves forward toward what, in Henry V, will be Shakespeare's most blazing success story. Falstaff, where the destiny of princes and the history of England are concerned...