Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson ran a story by the Associated Press regarding the royal lineages of the two presidential candidates (Oct. 28). The story explained that, according to Burke's Peerage, President Clinton was more likely to win the election than Senator Dole because Clinton had more royal blood in him. Harold Brooks-Baker, the editor at Burke's, is completely mistaken about this...
President Clinton is of no known royal ancestry. Even if his claim of a descent from Robert I of France were true, in 1992 he beat George Bush, whose known royal ancestry is much more prominent than Mr. Clinton's. In fact, in this century, only Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1888, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Bush were of royal ancestry and elected to the presidency. That means 10 presidents of the 20th century were not of royal ancestry including Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy '40 and Ronald...
...only point to studying royal ancestry is that it is the only provable ancestry is that it is the only provable ancestry to be studied before 1400. The average person did not leave records; indeed the average person did not have a surname before that point in history. It is also commonly thought that most people have a royal ancestor since the children of that class has a better chance of survival than other children. I would contend that more than half of all Americans have such an ancestor. Whether one can prove it or not is a matter...
...stolid Othello (with Branagh and Laurence Fishburne) and the brutal, enthralling Richard III (Ian McKellen). This week three Shakespeare films will be on view: Romeo and Juliet, Al Pacino's Looking for Richard and the British Twelfth Night, or What You Will, directed by Trevor Nunn, the former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director who has been named boss of the Royal National Theatre. Branagh has his four-hour Hamlet ready for Christmas. Filmmakers are trying every tactic--cultural intimidation, lavish spectacle, frenzied camerabatics and the casting of young stars--to put the masses in the seats...
...everything together and we got downstairs and there's us and the Canadian team," Kirrane says. "We still [didn't] know what's going on. They put us all on the same bus, threw all our bags into a truck. Zingo, right to the airport. We got on a Royal Air Force plane. Everything was a big rush and [we] were wondering what's going...