Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply religious. She displays Johnson traits in abundance: she is strong-willed and sensitive, voluble and introspective, fiercely loyal to her family yet irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci, who calls herself a "theatrical person" and a "romantic," says mysteriously: "I am a blue-eyed daughter in a brown-eyed family." She elaborates: "I know I'm very different from...
...less than successful, it is because of a few uncomfortable performances. The Bacchae themselves--Asian women who follow Dionysus--are a mixed lot. As Pentheus, Jim Shuman gives an uneven, never quite powerful enough performance; but he does convey the weakness of mind and irritability of Thebes' mortal ruler...
...times threatened to topple the throne. The Beaver's main thesis, certain to be debated, is that some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury. "The Archbishop did not want either the King or the marriage," said the Beaver. "Baldwin, the Prime Minister, did not want King Edward...
Mwami Mwambutsa IV, the Watutsi ruler of the kingdom of Burundi, did not seem like a man who would easily part with his throne. In fact, when the rival Bahutu tribesmen attempted to overthrow him last October, the Mwami and his men struck back so ruthlessly that at least 86 Bahutus were executed, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament. Last week it seemed that the Mwami had lost his throne just the same. Not to the Bahutus. To his own son, Prince Charles Ndizeye...
...none too happy with Hussein's recent warmth toward Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Nasser's bitterest Arab enemy. Wrote Cairo's semiofficial Al Goumhouria: "The Palestine Liberation Organization has no alternative but to enter a battle to the finish with the Jordanian ruler...