Word: royale
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Although Shaw has appeared in over two dozen movies (he was the conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes...
...University is also connected to Iran's own elite through its proposed center for community health, which is part of the new medical complex that, Leahy says, is being built as a "direct interest" of the royal family. The health center will be staffed by post-graduate M.D.s working towards Ph.Ds at the planned Imperial Medical Complex in Teheran...
Some Doubts. After a state dinner at the royal palace, Ford flew to Salzburg on Sunday to take up the problems of peace in the Middle East. The President was to fly back to Washington overnight on Tuesday, stopping for ten hours in Rome to talk with Italian President Giovanni Leone and Premier Aldo Moro about Italy's economic and political difficulties. Ford also was to discuss the humanitarian aspects of the world's trouble spots with Pope Paul...
...Symphony have just finished a three-week visit; Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony are playing now. Next week Native Son Seiji Ozawa comes in with the San Francisco Symphony. On a refueling stop in Anchorage, the Met crowd encountered the entire company of Britain's Royal Ballet in the airport waiting room. They were on their way home to London from Tokyo...
However, for the record: "gules argent" and "bars sinister" are heraldic impossibilities; Nixon is called many other things in the book apart from "controversial"; there are at least twelve Kings in the book (see the "Royal Descents" in the appendices) apart from President Ford's father, so that joke is not so clever; and, above all, our books are scholarly records of social history, not "snob's bibles." If you do not believe this, try reading one-without prejudice. You will be surprised. Indeed, your flabber will never have been so gasted...