Word: scepter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This sense of linguistic homelessness is evident throughout his work, but most poignant in the poem "An Evening of Russian Poetry" ("Beyond the seas where I have lost a scepter,/ I hear the neighing of my dappled nouns...
Apparently all things will have their uses in this war, even a statue of scepter-wielding, toga-robed King George III. The 2-ton equestrian figure of gold-leafed lead was installed at New York's Bowling Green just six years ago to symbolize a "deep sense of the eminent and singular benefits received from him." This week, after the Declaration of Independence was officially read to the populace on the Common in the presence of General George Washington, a huge crowd surged down Broad Way to wreak vengeance on the statue. Having drunk plenty...
...copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings and Queens still hold scepter, if not sway, they continue to provide the sense of history and continuity that helps make diverse peoples one. That is a most uncommon, magical?and much needed?gift indeed...
...royal clan derives from the Barrymores, with echoes of the Drews. The grande dame who wields the scepter in this kingdom is Fanny Cavendish (Eva Le Gallienne), an ailing titaness of the footlights with the tongue of an asp and a heart of melting butter. But pandemonium is really the ruler of the realm...
Whether that happens depends largely on the blond, handsome storybook princeling who at week's end became Spain's first King since his grandfather, Alfonso XIII, was deposed in 1931. The ceremony was brief but emotional; the traditional crown and scepter were present on a table in Madrid's packed Cortes, but Juan Carlos was not formally crowned. Dressed in the uniform of a captain-general of the Spanish army−a title held only by Franco and six other men in the country's history−Juan Carlos placed his hand on a Bible...