Word: peacocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read and write until he was an adult. Reza Khan started as a noncommissioned officer in the Persian army, rose to colonel, and in 1921 led a military revolt that finally ousted the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Even before he had seized the bejeweled Peacock Throne- for himself, he chose Pahlavi, one of the ancient languages of Persia, as his dynastic name...
...Palace in Delhi, India, and was brought to Persia by a conquering Shah in the 18th century. The throne on which Mohammed Reza Pahlavi sat is a copy made during the reign of Path Ali Shah (1798-1834) and named after one of his favorites, Tavous Khanoum, or Lady Peacock. * In 1939 the Shah married Princess Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's King Farouk, who had been chosen by his father before he ever saw her. He divorced her in 1948 and married Soraya Esfandiari, whom he divorced in 1958 after she failed to bear him an heir...
...Peacock Party (Viking; $7.95), by Alan Aldridge with Harry Willock and George E. Ryder, is the season's most demanding work. The rhymes vary from one-syllable words to items like apogee and collation-an invitation to learning, but also to mystification. The illustrations are something else: portraits of the animal kingdom as seen by the surrealist eye and rendered by the quattrocento hand. Long after the Peacock poetry is memorized or forgotten, the pictures will detonate in the mind, like the bizarre conceits of John Tenniel for the Alice books...
...crisis, it would be fortunate if the Shah should proceed to Mexico or some other third country to continue his treatment and recuperation. Alternatively, suggests one prominent American expert on the Middle East, the Shah could help by renouncing, once and for all, his family's claim to the Peacock Throne. This expert believes the Shah might well be willing to make such a sacrifice as the price of staying...
...hopes on such stale items as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from the same folks who launched the crash-landed Battlestar Galactica) and From Here to Eternity (a spin-off of a miniseries). As Johnny Carson put it in an opening monologue this summer, "The NBC peacock looked at the fall schedule-and he's not so proud...