Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain itself has never had a King Juan, but four Juans have ruled in the land, two each in the ancient kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Most famous of them were Juan II of Aragon, father of King Ferdinand, and Juan II of Castile and Leon, father of Queen Isabella...
...today tend to be relatively obscure academic technicians. No living U.S. philosopher has the significance to the world at large that John Dewey or George Santayana had a generation or two ago. Many feel that philosophy has played out its role in the history of human culture; the "queen of sciences" has been dethroned...
...equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
That masterly compendium of Anglicanism's faith and worship, the Book of Common Prayer, has long been one of the glories of the English language. Last week Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal assent to use of a new Psalter in church worship-one step in the first major revision of the Prayer Book in 300 years...
Died. Richard Dimbleby, 52, BBC's mellifluous Voice of Britain for the past 30 years, who covered every major event from the 1952 coronation of Queen Elizabeth to Sir Winston Churchill's funeral this year; of cancer; in London. He brought such knowledge and unabashed love of the Establishment to his broadcasts that Britons nicknamed him Bishop Dimbleby, Dick Dimbleboom and the Royal Plum Pudding-though he could, in a moment of off-mike irreverence, crack that "We marry 'em, we crown 'em and we bury...