Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson begins with a flashback to the year 1725, when a little-known scholar named Giambattista Vico brought out a book based on a rather dazzling notion. Social history, he saw, was not, as man had long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station...
...with 1964 perhaps a recent exception-than those of the brawling, robust Democrats. With a sitting and seemingly eminently re-electable President in command, the Republicans are again heading for what looks like a relatively bland $1.5 million affair in Miami Beach. By all indications, it will be a pageant of party unity, a coronation rather than a contest, a subdued, elegantly appointed spectacular in which the only mystery is the question of the vice-presidential nomination. No major fights, no challenges are in the offing. Richard Nixon has all the votes he needs for renomination. "The President," says Party...
...holidays, Non-Mother's Day and Non-Father's Day. On these days, favorite nonparents are to be honored with flowers and cigars. The organization has begun to publish a rather juvenile newsletter, Non-Sense, which, for example, recently charged that the March issue of Pageant "exceeded the bounds of all decency in extolling the virtues of motherhood." One member, Ellen Peck, has written a book that disparages motherhood mostly because it gets in the way of the glamour of a free life...
Miss USA Beauty Pageant. Miss USA 1972 will be crowned in Puerto Rico from among 51 contestants. Bob Barker is emcee, while judges include Ed Sullivan, Walt Frazier, Jacqueline Susann, and Cleveland Amory. 10, May 20, Chan...
...convey all this is a formidable, albeit irresistible, challenge for an actress. Two of the current attempts are strikingly successful. Eileen Atkins turns Vivat, Bolt's ponderous high school history pageant, into exciting drama, with an Elizabeth of coruscating wit and feline sensuality. Glenda Jackson, in Elizabeth R, is more subtle, but equally brilliant, with an astonishing ability to convey mood and nuance and to switch from a purr to a roar. "We are," Elizabeth proudly and accurately proclaimed, "of the nature of the lion...