Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself-Yea, all which it inherit-shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep...
Still under 30, Mason becomes "the solemn apostle of the groin." tours Europe with a raft of erotica, cases of twelve-year-old Scotch and a pneumatic mistress named Rosemarie ("that great walking Beautyrest of a woman"). When he is not blacking Rosemarie's eyes, Mason likes to pontificate on Topic A: "Sex is the last frontier ... the only area left where men can find full expression of their individuality...
Laura is not the street's only eccentric. There is Big Foot, a solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe. There is Man-Man, who writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag...
...longer a whiz at Latin, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, heard a few words in that language at a solemn Oxford University ceremony at which he was awarded an honorary doctor of civil law degree, 'installed as Oxford's new chancellor. Old Oxonian Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan expressed his gratitude for the honor in hesitant Latin, seemed relieved to return to his native tongue, in which he allowed: "My Latin pronunciation is almost as obsolete as the language itself...
Later that afternoon, after he made his U.S. arrival official by placing a wreath on the tomb of Arlington's unknown servicemen. General de Gaulle drove down Pennsylvania Avenue to his first official White House conference. When he came out 75 minutes later, his long, solemn face intimidated even Washington's hard-case press corps. Here was the Western statesman who had last had contact with Khrushchev, the man who was to play host to next month's summit conference?and the newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev...