Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S excellent article on Nicholas Nickleby [Oct. 5] only begins to describe the perfection of the Royal Shakespeare Company's ambitious endeavor. The richness of the production is unforgettable and beyond price. Perhaps the most exhilarating moment of the entire day came at the curtain call, when an obviously overjoyed company appeared to be dumbstruck by the deafening cheers from the standing audience...
...remark "If the show plays to empty seats, the failure will not belong to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the importers but to the Broadway audience" is as ridiculous as the exorbitant $100-a-ticket price. While your article notes that Nicholas Nickleby was a smash in London, it does not mention that there theatergoers could pay a measly $14 a seat...
Sadat was admitted in 1936 to the Royal Military Academy, where he first learned the value of bold, decisive action along with the uses of power and force. After graduating in 1938, he joined a group of young officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser, who plotted an armed revolt against the British presence. At that time, Sadat was the hothead talking of blowing up British installations; the cooler Nasser dissuaded...
...this seems confusing at first blush, consider a few preliminary facts: Since 1931, Britain has not exercised any influence in Canada beyond, well, stirring the loyalists with a Royal Wedding or two. And since 1931, Canadian governments have tried unsuccessfully to hammer out an indigenous constitution acceptable both to the federal branch and the provincial branch. Trudeau, a former lawyer who has held power with the federal Liberals for all but a few months in the past 14 years, has long dreamed of enshrining a civil Bill of rights together with a constitution the country can call...
...stake in protecting access to Middle East oil. Said he about Saudi Arabia: "There's no way that we could stand by and see that taken over by anyone that would shut off that oil." Reagan's muzzy statement, implying that the U.S. would defend the Saudi royal family against internal upheaval, underscored his-and the Administration's-continued difficulty in handling foreign affairs. Both the articulation of policy and decision making have been quirky and halting...