Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord Home read a letter to the conference dictated by Macmillan: "It is now clear that, whatever might have been my previous feelings, it will not be possible for me to carry the physical burden of leading the party at the next general election. I have so informed the Queen...
...private process of divination aimed at reaching what is euphemistically called "the consensus" of the party; when they have settled on a candidate who is acceptable to both Cabinet and parliamentary party and looks like a vote getter to boot, the name is presented for routine approval to the Queen. Thus Macmillan's successor will probably not be announced until after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 24 and the Prime Minister formally resigns. In all probability, Macmillan will be given an earldom...
Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...
...soldiers fight fiercely for an utterly ridiculous cause. The social workers sing a parody on "Danny Boy" entitled "No One Loves You But Yourself." When the soldier demands to know why he is to die, the caretaker can only cite English atrocities to Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria...
...Agamemnon. He had help: what we are and what we want to be took on separate bodies. Agamemnon (David Stone), tall, lean unhappy king is cousin to Aegisthus (Paul Schmidt), less unhappy, not at all king. Cassandra (Lynn Milgrim) wears the colors--saffron--of the dead daughter of Queen Clytemnestra (Frances Gitter). Further, the director had the help of superb actors--actors so strong individually that, for the most part, they could pool their strength in affecting their audience instead of competing to affect...