Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar referred to, by initials or nicknames, in his score: among them, the brusque, exuberant Troyte (Anthony Dowell), the gay, pensive teenager Dorabella (Sibley), and the romantic, home-loving Lady Elgar (Beriosova). Center...
Probably the nastiest problems of all are posed when heads of state get together. In 1475, England's Edward IV and France's Louis XI met in the mid dle of a bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy. The three feuding princes of Laos -Souphanouvong, Souvanna Phouma and Boun Oum, similarly met in the middle of a bridge over the Nam Lik River in 1961 to launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander...
...prince was greeted by the Trinity staff, handed the key to his rooms and quickly introduced to the routine of college life. He eats with the other undergraduates at the scrubbed oaken tables in hall, wears a blue academic gown, is assigned an ordinary three-room suite in one of the "newer" dormitories and shares a toilet and bath with ten other undergraduates on the E stairwell, where Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Macaulay and Thackeray also had rooms. His only special luxury is a telephone in his rooms. His personal bodyguard has moved to another location in the college...
...painted the small robed figures of judge, jury, prosecuting and defending attorneys. The juridical figures are fitted out with identical, froglike ceramic masks. Only the spectators, on the fourth wall, have a variety of normal human faces. In the center of the courtroom stands an ordinary old-fashioned oaken chair. "I want to make a bridge between the spectator and the event," says Friedensohn, "but an indeterminate one. I want him to think, 'Shall I sit in it or not?' So he'll be on the fence...
...ruler of the Ruhr's most powerful industrial dynasty. After the eulogies, a Krupp band struck up a miners' song called Glueck Auf (Good Fortune) and led the way out through a crowd to a hearse waiting in the rain. Behind followed ten Krupp miners bearing the oaken casket. Visibly in tears was Krupp's longtime confidant, Berthold Beitz, 53, a non-Krupp whose task now is to set up a foundation that will oversee the beleaguered empire...