Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked through the logistical gambits of mounting the U.S. premiere of Alban Berg's atonal, macabre, erotic opera Lulu, Crosby collected a power ful king and queen: Conductor Robert Craft, a devotee of Berg, and brilliant and beautiful Coloratura Soprano Joan Carroll, who had sung the leading role 39 times before, yet never in English. But the chess game only began with the big names. Scene shifters had to be taught to handle six sets ranging from a wealthy home to a brothel; dressers had to learn how to zip Joan Carroll in and out of ten costume changes...
...York, Pope Innocent VI (1352-62) made the Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York was granted the lesser title Primate of England; the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Donald Coggan is the incumbent. Primacy does not make Canterbury head of his church (the Queen is). Yet as first bishop of England, he ranks, in protocol, next to the royal family and ahead of the Prime Minister; as much as anyone, he speaks the mind of the Church of England...
Delighted to Offend. Across the nation, many citizens in and out of government shared Aiken's wariness toward the test ban treaty. Before boarding the Queen Elizabeth for a "nostalgic" trip to England and the Normandy beaches, former President Eisenhower counseled caution, pointed out that after atmospheric tests were halted in the 1958 moratorium, it was the Russians who first resumed testing. Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to know why, after the Russians had rejected a test ban treaty for five years, "suddenly there is a clear sky, the treaty is wrapped up in a week...
Given the required royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II was a new Peerage Act enabling a member of the Lords, for the first time in 300 years, to renounce his title to run for the Commons. As originally drawn by the government, the bill would not have gone into effect until Parliament was dissolved for the next election, which need not be held until fall 1964. That, to the Lords, looked suspiciously like a maneuver to keep Hailsham from getting into the political swim, presumably engineered by some of his rivals for the prime ministership-or even by Harold Macmillan...