Word: queene
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...graduate of Woodside High School in California, Poole was vice president of the student body, a peer counselor, winner of a writing award from the National Council of English Teachers and queen of her senior prom...
...Davies caught a little of its irony and much of the social contradiction and poignancy in songs like Muswell Hillbilly and Victoria, which voiced such self-mocking nostalgia as "Long ago life was clean/ Sex was bad and obscene/ And the rich were so mean/ ... Victoria was my queen." But the subject was ultimately too vast, too tough to focus and hard to contain. A three-record concept album called Preservation, released in 1973 and 1974, showed Davies burrowing into already familiar territory with a concentration that smacked of desperation...
...British have aged and mellowed their institution of poet laureate for three centuries. Some who read the effusions of the present laureate, Sir John Betjeman, think that the process is better described as decay. Two weeks agd, when the Queen Mother turned 80, Sir John released a poem of celebration: "We are your people,/ Millions of us greet you/ On this your birthday/ Mother of our Queen." This defiantly wooden psalming was merely average Betjeman. Years ago, the death of King George V inspired the young Betjeman to a soaring metaphysical conception: "Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe/ Flutter...
...stuttering husband after Edward's 1936 abdication, she promised, "We'll do the best we can." Her best was exemplified by a wartime courage that won the lasting devotion of the British. When London's East End was pummeled nightly by bombs, the King and Queen toured blitzed neighborhoods. Elizabeth's reaction when Buckingham Palace was first bombed: "I'm glad it happened-now I can look the East...
...which give an opportunity for real dancing." He is 75 now, and those words may well stand as his artistic creed. For the Royal Ballet, he has whirled up Rhapsody, a dazzling, sun-drenched frolic that premiered last week as part of England's birthday tribute to the Queen Mother. There is no plot except from the music, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini for piano and orchestra...