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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covering "the everyday humble-bumble of police courts," worked briefly for an encyclopedia but never got much beyond "Fleas, Performing." He believes that writers of fiction and poetry often give a truer picture of this world than sociologists, historians, scientists and politicians. "After all," he says, "who thinks of Queen Victoria in terms of Gladstone or the warehouse full of bureaucratic bilge? No. We think in terms of Dickens, as today will be thought of in terms of Koestler, Auden, Mailer and Waugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...sure, there will be squabbles between the British "peace-keeping" forces and Orange extremists or between the military and People's Democracy extremists; but the lack of partisan, tradition-bound anniversary dates and the presence of the Queen's Army should keep the general populace quiet...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...recently as 1965, it seemed as if Ulster was locked into this set of deadly arrangements. But in the late '60s, a number of Queen's University students-many of whom began to think that Ulster, with its British sponsored social services, might not be such a bad place if normal British subjects' rights were guaranteed to all of Ulster's people...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

ROYAL FAMILY (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). The royal couple themselves suggested that the BBC and commercial British television might like to film an intimate picture of them en famille. This result was edited from almost a year's shooting, and shows Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and the young royals behaving with cinéma vérité candor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 19, 1969 | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most of the ducal income was used to help pay Queen Elizabeth's annual salary of $1,140,000. Now the treasury must make up the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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