Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MUST make the state a reality," Louis tells the queen mother, then sets out to do just the opposite. He manufactures, instead, a state mythology, complete with forms and rituals usurped from Catholicism, infused, sui generis, with an illusion of order. "One rules minds," he tells Colbert, "by appearances, and not by the true nature of things." Louis's myth grows like a cancer, implanting gratuitous bourgeois details with royal significance. With each new detail, the monarchy extends itself horizontally, until it envelops and supplants reality. It is a monstrous calculus at deceit, made all the more appalling...
...Year Old Man, works over the largest territory, smashing the idols of all time. At one point he credits the Robin Hood legend to a press agent and explains that the altruistic robber actually "stole from everybody and kept everything." He reminds us of Shakespeare's flop play, "Queen Alexandra and Murray," which "closed in Egypt...
...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
...student of modern British history can testify, Stowell's "S" sounds remarkably like Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, grandson of Queen Victoria, son of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and brother of George...
...Queen's Justice. On the other hand, the jam-up also allows knowing criminals to negotiate with harried prosecutors for a reduction of the charges in return for a guilty plea that will save the busy courts the time and expense of a trial. A 1968 survey of 136 accused muggers showed that 62% of them used such "plea bargaining" to get minuscule sentences for misdemeanors like petty larceny, which, strictly speaking, they did not commit. Moreover, a plea-bargained sentence often amounts to the time already served while waiting for trial. Mayor John Lindsay recently likened all this...