Word: royalities
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...which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death to be commemorated in King's Chapel, he replied...
...Royal Household. Hope's days are full. She rises at about 8 a.m., breakfasts on tea and fruit, and browses through the foreign newspapers and magazines to which the palace subscribes. At 10 a.m., her secretary enters, and the four hours until lunch are spent writing letters, devising menus and supervising the palace's 15 servants, who work in two shifts. She also keeps an eye on the family budget: the King's annual income is $42,000, and fixed expenses of $27,000 leave the royal household only a $15,000 margin. After lunch, palace chores...
Princely Parasol. In A.D. 379, Hindu King Sri Parkaran Iravi Vanmar granted the village of Anjuvannam to an Indian Jewish leader named Joseph Rabban. Rabban was also given the title of prince, along with 72 proprietary rights including the privilege of levying taxes and such royal honors as "a cloth spread in front to walk on, a parasol, a drum, a trumpet and a garland." In 1524, jealous Arab merchants, accusing the Jews of trying to take over the pepper trade, stirred up a holy war against the community by Indian natives. Cranganore was sacked, its homes and synagogue burned...
Hadrian VII--Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Alec McCowen gives what many feel is one of the great performances of our generation. Previewing at the HELEN HAYES, W. 46th...
...debt to the man. In a paper once, Newton implied that Leibniz had borrowed his idea for the calculus from one of Newton's manuscripts. And as the furor over this question spread through scientific Europe, Newton played an active role in the publications of a paper by the Royal Society which examined the conflict and concluded, not entirely fairly, against Leibniz...