Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors, a color scheme (snow white and green) to please the Empress, room for horohiki (ancient Imperial horsemanship), polo, garden parties, banquets, and the crowds that gather to greet the Emperor on his birthday and New Year's. In short, the finest building ever to grace Hirohito's reign...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson dreamed up the idea of a Commonwealth peacemaking mission while playing croquet at Chequers-and that, it seemed last week, was about as far as the scheme would go. When Communist China heard of the Briton's plan to mediate the war in Viet Nam, Peking declared Wilson was a "nitwit." Then North Viet Nam dismissed the notion as a U.S.-inspired "swindle." Finally, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin slammed the door on the Commonwealth mission. "The Soviet government," said he, "has not been authorized by anyone to conduct talks on a settlement in Viet...
Though Wilson's scheme had the backing of the U.S. and at least tacit support from 16 Commonwealth members, there was more than a little doubt that the mission would get under way next month as Wilson hoped. Even if the Russians ultimately agree to the team's visit, Peking and Hanoi probably will not. Last April, when Wilson's emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, set off on a similar mission, they would not even receive...
High Price. This seemed to offer the speediest way to conclusion of the whole farm question, but when De Gaulle first read about the scheme in the French papers last March, he hit the ceiling. Summoning Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and French Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani, he demanded to know why he had not been warned about such supranational schemes in advance. They had to admit that the matter was news to them as well...