Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest example of functioning anarchy," he was welcomed as the biggest thing?in many respects?since Lord Irwin, later Viscount Halifax, who had traveled around the country as Viceroy 30 years earlier with an 8-ft. bed. "How tall are you?" Galbraith was asked soon after his ar rival. The reply: "I am the tallest man in the world...
...battle heightened, Los Angeles Catholics began choosing up sides. Public manifestos of support for the nuns have come from the recently formed Los Angeles Association of Laymen, 29 Jesuits from Loyola University, and ten priests and brothers from the city's Franciscan Theological Seminary. A rival lay group, affiliated with the conservative National Federation of Laymen, rallied to Mclntyre's cause. Worried about the developing schism, 28 other Loyola Jesuits asserted that the support voiced by their 29 colleagues for the sisters "does not represent the entire religious community at Loyola," and suggested that judgment not be made...
...complex plot defies easy unraveling even in Eric Bentley's swift and supple version. In a historical pageant held 20 years before the action of the play begins in 1922, an Italian noble man (Kenneth Haigh) had his horse tripped by a rival for his mistress' favors. After the fall he went mad, imagining himself to be the character he had been impersonating in the pageant, the 11th century Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He lived in a villa complete with throne, courtiers and artifacts of the period. For the first twelve years after his accident, the pseudo...
...supposed madman back to sanity by the ploy of having the portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...
...Bunkie* Knudsen, 55. After 29 years as a G.M. executive, he was earning some $481,000 a year as boss of domestic nonauto and all over seas operations. But he was keenly disappointed at his failure to win G.M.'s presidency last fall. Instead, his only obvious rival, Edward N. Cole, 58, won the job that Knudsen had coveted and courted for most of his life. Cole's ascension meant not only that Knudsen's road to promotion was blocked for at least another four years; it also meant that even if Knudsen did follow Cole...