Word: shelteredness
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One can find a weal ht of such stories in Royal Secrets, the latest addition to the library of behind-the-scenes books published since he 1981 wedding made the Royals into a worldwide fad. These recollections of Stephen Barry, Prince Charles' former valet, tell about the Buckingham Palace staff...
The American stage community cherishes a persistent dream: the creation of an equivalent to Britain's National Theater or Royal Shakespeare Company. New plays would be mounted and the classics reconsidered in an environment sheltered from the hit-or-extinction extremities of Broadway. Over the decades attempts have been made...
Spock had a sheltered, hard-shell conservative upbringing in a solidly Republican household. He went to Andover, Yale, Yale Medical School and had switched to Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons before meeting his first Democrat. He says he was "absolutely flabbergasted" to find that university-educated people need...
Geneva is a world diplomatic capital not only because of its beauty and its convenience but also because of its unique traditions and style. It is dedicated to neutrality, like the rest of Switzerland, and yet it is not at all like the rest of Switzerland. It was the last...
To fight the sense of unreality induced by a comfortable childhood, Arbus would ride the subway for hours at at time to observe the freaks of everyday life, the albino messenger boy, a girl with a purple birthmark. She continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by...