Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magnificence of voice or roll of theatrical thunder, but from a projection of feeling, a rush of psychological light. Moving from Youth through Manhood to Old Age, he plays many parts. Few will complain that he includes a host of warhorses-Hamlet's best soliloquies, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets and not a single lyric, only to decide that he prefers his Shakespeare, even when most poetic, in a personalized context...
...young man of 21, Red China's Fu Tsun was a good enough pianist to win third prize in Warsaw's 1955 International Chopin Piano Competition. Belgium's Queen Mother Elisabeth invited him to play in her country. Recognizing a valuable cultural export, Red China granted Fu Tsun permission to study in Poland and to give 200 concerts in the satellite countries of Eastern Europe...
...another year, Eleanor Roosevelt was the living woman most admired by the nation, as sounded out by Pollster George Gallup. Runner-ups to Mrs. Roosevelt (a ten-time winner in the poll), this year as well as last, were Queen Elizabeth and Clare Boothe Luce. In fourth place: Mamie Eisenhower, sixth in popularity last year. For the seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list...
...cousin, then Lord Louis Mountbatten, suggested soothingly that there was no more fitting preparation for the throne than British naval training. Cousin Dickie was right. Albert Frederick Arthur George had been virtually ignored by everyone, from his mother, Queen Mary, to his nurse; but his service in the Royal Navy (where he was known as "Johnson") helped to set him up for the onerous business of living in the shadow of his brother's personality. Far from having David's "youthful charm and buoyancy," George was "shy and hesitant" and had a severe stammer. All Bertie...
Divinity v. Publicity. He needed these qualities when, on his ascension, he stepped into what he called an "inevitable mess." He learned that for a popular modern monarchy it is not so much divinity as publicity that doth hedge a king, and that for the first time since Queen Victoria's early widowhood, a British king, his mercurial brother, had forfeited the royal immunity from criticism...