Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming just four months after an intruder entered Queen Elizabeth's bedroom, the incident revived doubts about the safety of British leaders. For Thatcher, it was an unwelcome embarrassment in a week marked by revelations that a number of new leaks had been detected in Britain's sievelike national security system. Only three weeks ago, Geoffrey Prime, a Russian-language expert at Britain's top-secret Cheltenham communications center, pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the Soviet Union. It was enough to give the already rattled British a bad case of jitters. Said a group...
...Whitlam government had so badly mishandled the economy that Opposition Leader Fraser succeeded in blocking passage of a budget bill in the Australian Senate. With the government about to run out of money, Kerr called Whitlam to his office on Nov. 11. As the duly appointed representative of the Queen of England, Kerr took the unprecedented but legal step of firing Whitlam...
Many of the traditions currently associated with Christmas, such as elaborately decorated Christmas trees and carol-singing, originated in Victorian England. "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were hot on peddling Christmas...
...BOOK'S last poem, "Searching for the Queen of Angels," soars the highest but at times falls the flattest. Mudd slips backwards from a love scene into memory, calling the past a "renewal" and detailing the history of the city. The poem start with a cleverly written but inherently dull account of everything from the founding of a city called La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles to a group of kindergarten students (Mudd remembers) planting black walnuts. The past is a history assignment that needs to be done before government can studied, Mudd says...
Eventually, Mudd embraces the city as a potential Utopia. Unlike Wordworth and his sister, who conclude that hell is life on earth, Mudd says it contains all the promise of heaven. In "Searching for the Queen of Angels," the poet actually finds the queen of angels--of says he does. His queen is the same as that of Williams, who writes in Paterson. "Say it, no ideas but in thing." Mudd's entire reason for living is the city's vigor the singular relish humanity takes in its own creations, Eventually, paradise can come on earth. Odes have been written...