Word: necker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing." What gave monarchy the coup de grace, De Gramont suggests, was a new power, a new style setter: public opinion. "My infallible Queen," Jacques Necker, one of Louis XVl's Finance Ministers, called it in a switch of fealty. Public opinion, influenced by Voltaire and a prestigious literary antiEstablishment, made regal style seem dated and absurd even to aristocrats...
...campus is healthy, both sexes agree. (Too healthy some authorities fear. As a result regulations forbid students to sit less than eighteen inches from each other on the college lawn. And Hunter enforces this rule; a student explained that the college employs one woman as the school's "necker checker...