Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the recent stupid Nasserite propaganda campaign, King Hussein did not bother to alert military units or order top intelligence operatives to cancel trips abroad. Not a single leaflet appeared in Jordanian army barracks, nor did the refugees pay any serious attention to the vicious personal attacks on the royal family. The people and the government take their own works too seriously to have time for this polemical nonsense, and the throne in Jordan has proved a symbol of unity and a source of faith that is far beyond the reach of any "repercussions...
...when British Royal Navy Captain Arthur Phillip mustered his sea-beaten "First Fleet" on the banks of Botany Bay, he came up with a tally of 756 convicts (including prostitutes, purse snatchers, forgers, highwaymen and housebreakers), 211 military persons, 209 chickens, 74 pigs, 29 sheep, 19 goats, five rabbits, five cows, three mares, two bulls and a stallion...
This Inhuman Clay. Caro is amply qualified to pioneer the engineer's esthetic in art. Son of a stockbroker, he took an engineering degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944, then studied art for six years, mostly at the Royal Academy Schools, before serving a two-year apprenticeship under Henry Moore. Not until 1957 did he have a one-man show in London of savage figurative bronzes, which drove a critic to gasp, "One almost wishes them back into clay." Caro gave up modeling in clay as "lifeless." A trip to the U.S. opened his eyebeams...
...from a cardinal made Poussin's name. King Louis XIII pressured him into returning to paint for the glory of France. Under the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, Poussin was pestered with jobs to do what he called "mere bagatelles"-fireplaces, frontispiece designs, cabinet decor. After two years of royal daubing in France, he fled for good to Rome, where he quietly painted what he pleased until his death...
...then he sets aside office, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower and finally lays his head upon the executioner's block. The reasons are, of course, familiar--Henry VIII wished to marry Anne, the Pope would not agree with Henry that the royal marriage to Catherine was void; unable to put aside Catherine with the consent of the Pope, Henry put aside the Pope. More would not swear to the act of Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church...