Word: protocol
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...Whether or not it is protocol for a producer to write kind words to a reviewer, I find it impossible not to comment on what you had to say about Rhino! What most producers look for in a review is a critic's discovery of the one element that serves as the producer's raison d'être. You discovered it and commented. I refer to the line, "The animals themselves are examined with wonder and with love...
...last week to celebrate the marriage of King Constantine to Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and the royal flush virtually undid the ancient birthplace of democracy. Ordinary counts, barons and prime ministers languished unnoticed in hotel lobbies; telephones and traffic alike broke down; and the bridegroom daily confronted a protocol officer's nightmare. The King and Queen of Belgium, the King of Norway, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, for example, arrived on the same aircraft, requiring Constantine to march out to the plane and back three separate times for the ritual of greetings and national anthems...
...herself sculpted in the nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they were supposed to rule over their various subjects rather than...
...policies in Viet Nam is rather too apt a way to spend those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. So U.S. Envoy Henry Cabot Lodge, 62, found it extraordinarily pleasant to take a day off from his mission for a visit to Rome's Ostia Beach with Italian Protocol Chief Guerino Roberti and his family. The latest details in the daily papers on the shifting sands in Saigon could only illustrate what a grind diplomacy is. But as Roberti's noble Roman daughter Cristina pointed out, there are compensations-and Lodge needed only to look...
This is not normally an easy matter. But making what was supposedly a protocol appearance on Russia's television network, U Thant told an estimated 40 million viewers that the U.N. is "facing a very serious financial crisis." What's more, he added, "I am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and their leaders want the United Nations to develop into a really effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this noble objective, it is up to all of us to try to find a solution to get the United Nations...