Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such gift, a $600,000 grant given to Harvard's Semitic Museum by the Saudi Royal family in December 1982, will finance the museum's three-year effort to identify and preserve valuable photographs depicting life throughout the Middle East, according to Assistant Curator for Archives Ingeborg O'Reilly...
...Prime Minister played to crowds in Wales and hopscotched around England, even stopping at a Royal Navy lifeboat station, Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69, was also out campaigning, putting in tiring ten-stop days around the country. In Surrey the silver-haired scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then...
...pronounces his existence weary, stale, flat and, above all, unprofitable. He says he is "tired of traveling, traveling, traveling, just to make a living." He waves off the idea of settling in to run a large resident theater: "If I had the worries that Trevor Nunn does at the Royal Shakespeare Company, I would absolutely open my veins in the bath." He resents the very existence of critics: "Twenty years of being reconstituted in newsprint has worn me out." With extravagantly pouty self-mockery, he sums up: "My life has consisted of asking people to dress up in other people...
...diarist was not some ignominious hypocrite; he was a high-placed hypocrite. Pepys, a Secretary of the Royal Navy, regularly took bribes, praising God for his increasing riches. On one occasion, when he received an envelope that felt full of money, he artfully opened and emptied it without actually looking inside, "that I might say I saw no money in the paper if ever I should be questioned about it." It is that candor, conveying irresistibly the sense of life as it was, that finally begins to make Pepys rather likable after all. And so history has come to rely...
...INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE got between the royal blue covers of Robert B. Reich's long-awaited The Next American Frontier before those covers ever materialized. In fact, the galleys to the book were one of the hottest items in Washington, D.C. this spring as policy makers and politicians scrambled to read Dr. Reich's prescription for the ailing U.S. economy. Now the general public has finally gotten its crack at an enlightening work which urges a dramatic change of direction for the role of U.S. business, labor and government towards more advanced industries and a more flexible labor system...