Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margot Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...
...Bolshoi's Swan Lake was strikingly different from the two versions-by the New York City Ballet and Britain's Royal Ballet-most frequently seen in the West. While the City Ballet version telescopes the action into a single act and provides brilliant virtuoso movements for the entire ballet corps, the Bolshoi keeps the original four acts and focuses on the soloists, with the corps often planted in mere statuesque rows and curves. The traditional Swan Lake ending, which is authentically portrayed by the Royal Ballet-the Princess changed back into a swan, forever lost to the world...
Mithradates Eupator claimed to be 16th in line of descent from that renowned foe of the Greeks, the great King Darius of Persia. The world he entered in 132 B.C. was one in which royal parents freely poisoned their growing sons to prevent them growing too big-and with reason. At the age of 21, Prince Mithradates of Pontus imprisoned his mother, executed his brother, married his sister and mounted the throne...
...horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have come as an embassy they are too many; but if they come as an army they are too few." The words had scarcely left the royal lips when Lucullus attacked and, at the reported cost of five Romans, destroyed "100,000 barbarians...