Word: rulers
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...Gershwin's rhymes and wordplays are magnificent; a sampling of memorable ones might include the description of Wintergreen as "the ruler of our Government/the one who taught what love meant' and the description of the First Baby as a "Dictator-tot." As Lisa Olmos notes in the program booklet, "Of Thee I Sing/ is a florid testament of Ira's skill at "letting the melody fit the rhyme...
...through the garbage disposal by mistake and field a string of phone calls--three from telemarketers who know they'll find me home at this hour, one from a younger sibling who wants to borrow $300. My six-year-old needs a hug. My nine-year-old needs a ruler with centimeters on it. My toddler needs to slam two pot lids together...
When a final effort to abate his cancer failed last week, the King came home. On Saturday, Abdullah was sworn in as regent with full governing authority. And on Sunday, as the kingdom mingled fears with prayers, Hussein died, leaving Jordanians to confront a future without the only ruler most of them have ever known...
Many will choose to remember the doughty King mainly as a survivor. He succeeded to the Hashemite throne in 1952, at 16, and when he came home last week, at 63, he was the Middle East's longest-serving leader, a ruler of personal courage and political caution who navigated his country through the intrigues of the cold war to the consummation of peace with Israel...
...that is what it was, came quietly. When King Hussein, ruler of Jordan for 47 years, left abruptly for emergency cancer treatment in the U.S. last week, there was a brief royal decree, a kissing of cheeks and an elegiac command on behalf of his people. "Achieve for them," the 63-year-old monarch told his newly anointed successor, Crown Prince Abdullah, 37, "a dignified life...