Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CELEBRATION, by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the co-creators of The Fantasticks, has a handsome blond Orphan and a crestfallen Angel pitted against the bored and impotent Mr. Rich. It is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood...
...those riches, however, the life of King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Fais al al Saud was poor in many of the things which the world's more ordinary people set store by. His health was bad. His favorite sons proved disap pointing and profligate. Like many exorbitantly rich men, he was gnawed at times by doubts as to the sincerity of his professed friends. He ruled Saudi Arabia for only eleven of his 67 years, then was forced by his own brother to surrender the throne. Born in exile in Kuwait, where his parents had taken refuge from...
...lives of many of the rulers of the oil-rich Arab states are marked by a special brand of gilt-edged vulgarity. Saud was perhaps the leading exponent of the tradition. During his reign he maintained one of the more ostentatious harems in the Middle East: the number of concubines averaged from 80 to 120, and agents in Beirut and other capitals kept it well-stocked. To facilitate his choice of companions for the night, he reportedly installed closed-circuit television...
...tradition of artistic elegance passed on to succeeding generations of silversmiths, and continued even after the discovery of Peru's rich silver mines in 1533 made the metal available to Europe's relatively common people. A selective congeries of master craftsmen began to turn out standard household items: porringers, tankards, sherry beakers, stirrup cups, and such utilitarian items as knives and spoons. Their art was so prolific, in fact, that for years nobody paid much attention to the artistic quality of their products...
...always wanted to visit San Francisco, you'd better go over Spring Break: you may never get another chance -- at least not until you're fat, rich, and too old to enjoy...