Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME for its polished reportage on the U.S. visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The visit itself and articles such as yours help to bring a "strengthening of the British-American friendship ties" which the Queen referred to at the President's banquet...
Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build a ritual pattern, every part of which must be fully apprehended before the play can be understood. Even then, the story of a poet who chooses a mysterious queen as the ideal figure of his verses, only to be beheaded by her jealous husband, is open to a multitude of different interpretations. But Liam Clancy, the poet, and Lew Petterson, the king, do violence to Yeats' poetry by speaking in a falsely declamatory manner. And John Lancaster's music usually conceals the playwright's words rather...
...lawyer's clerk is convinced he's the nephew of the Queen of Fairies, a knight that he will inherit the realm, the clergy that its pockets will be lined--and so on. The characters assume and discard identities with professional skill, and cavort from bedroom to laboratory with Elizabethan vitality...
...drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped out of a sleek green and black Rolls-Royce and entered the church to begin the ceremonies...
...Seamen who sail under the "Red Duster" of the British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace...