Word: princess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write: "By any standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary. However, there is a difference between a nation's rational and emotional needs." Presumably, the emotional needs of the U.S. are satisfied by having Princess Kay of the Milky Way, the Cherry Blossom Queen, the Queen of the Snows, the Raspberry Queen, the Rose Bowl Queen and thousands of other pseudo-royalty...
President Nixon could hardly have chosen a more engaging personal emissary to the investiture of the Prince of Wales. Tricia Nixon was clearly, as London's admiring Daily Sketch put it, "America's little princess." The papers wrote columns on her blonde, Dresden-doll beauty and easy grace as she moved through a schedule that might have daunted a seasoned diplomat: tea with the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a spate of cocktail parties, and a trip to Wimbledon for the tennis quarterfinals-not to mention the investiture. Even her father's erstwhile opponent Hubert Humphrey...
...Choreographer George Balanchine. 65, told his charges, "I came here and got sick. Now please don't eat awful stuff like octopus. And don't charge into the water. In fact, don't do anything." Anything, that is, except dance. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had invited Balanchine's New York City Ballet to Monaco for a week-long festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Sergei Diaghilev, whose famed Ballets Russes Balanchine choreographed in the 1920s. And for "Mr. B.," whose embroidered cowboy shirts were as outstanding as his interpretations of Stravinsky, returning...
SWORD LINE can carry the weight and win, PRINCESS VAL is ridden by hot apprentice R. Casey, LIGHTNING STORM...
...play of this kind, women naturally have to stay out of the fore-ground. But Katharine (Roberta Maxwell), in a pink gown, and Alice (Patricia Elliott), in a pale but one, are delightful as the lady-in-waiting gives an English lesson to her French princess--with no attempt to disguise the scene's bawdy bilingual puns (Henry V is, as a matter of fact, the bawdiest of all the Histories). And Katharine is a charming model of modesty in the wooing scene...