Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons...
...change was a long time coming. For decades, while the rest of Europe standardized driving on the right, Sweden, like Britain, Ireland and Iceland, clung stubbornly to the left-an arbitrary attitude that dated back to an 18th century royal decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden...
Most abstract painters loftily leave it to the critics to figure out what their squiggles, squares and blobs are all about. But not Mrs. Brenda Jeanes, the London housewife whose 24 in.-by-20 in. abstract won first prize last week at the Royal Society of Arts in the nonobjective category of a competition sponsored by the popular Sunday newspaper The People. Explained Mrs. Jeanes, mother of a 15-year-old daughter: "The abstract was my endeavor to depict life from the fetus to infinity, and the struggle for the first breath of life. The section of rectangles indicates...
...Something Big." Son of a prosperous department-store owner in Liverpool, Epstein was a sensitive boy who dropped out of his seventh and last school at 16. The army discharged him after twelve maladjusted months; he got nowhere at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was 25 before he made a go of something-running one of his family's record departments...
...then beating them brutally with a stick. Last month Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered the closing of Court Lees in Surrey, a so-called "approved school," which handles potential juvenile delinquents, after its headmaster and an assistant were accused of caning boys "with excessive severity." Recently, the Royal Navy abolished its traditional caning of youthful sailors after a Parliamentary inquiry revealed that 69 under-18 tars had been beaten in a single year...