Word: regales
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...SWORD IN THE STONE (Disneyland) is as bright as Excalibur. It is the ageless legend of the exploit by which young Arthur, the humble knight's equerry, became King of England. Arthur is simple of soul and fairly regal in silence, but Merlin is a beguilingly garrulous, absent-minded wizard...
...Regal Candor. Fortunately for Hassan, neither of the nation's two major leftist opposition groups has yet taken overt advantage of the riots. The Union Marocaine du Travail, Morocco's socialist, urban-intellectual labor union, staged an 18-hour sympathy strike for the rioters. But discipline was poor-largely because the U.M.T. did not know what the riots were all about. And the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, which holds nearly a fifth of the seats in the National Assembly, was equally befuddled. Had the two combined forces, Hassan might have been in real trouble...
...Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded hard work and patience. "A politician who promises you a prosperous future is a liar," declared the King with regal candor. "I cannot promise you a prosperous future...
...fantastic." The audience agreed. Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two coloraturas melded voices in a breathtakingly lovely duet. Marilyn exhibited a regal voice that spans two octaves, warm and bronze-toned in the middle, vibrantly brilliant at the top. With the diction of a newscaster, she breezed through the complicated Rossini libretto as easily as a mother singing a nursery rhyme...
...General's regal bearing amounts to much more than theatrical bravado. "Despite haughty denials, shrugs of the shoulder, feigned indignation, General De Gaulle is, by temperament, a monarchist." Viansson-Ponte believes that if De Gaulle could restore the French throne he would gladly do so. But as a matter of practical policy he is resigned to democratic forms, if not to democratic substance, in French politics. This in no way diminishes the General's self-esteem...