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...know how much soul-searching the Prince's parents had gone through, their decision was certainly a break in a firm family tradition. Queen Victoria was pleased to leave the education of the future Edward VII in the stern hands of Prince Albert. Since Victoria was still the sovereign when her grandchildren were growing up, and was still afraid of having them mix with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept in virtual isolation. It was not until...
...religious fervor which marked not only the high point of Buddhist art, but also of court painters and poets still ranked among China's greatest. Among the period's leading figures : the Empress Wu, who rivals Britain's first Elizabeth for energy and cunning; the "Illustrious Sovereign" Hsuan-Tsung, scholar and educator, whose tragic love for the beauteous Yang Kuei Fei ended when the army, incensed at her extravagance, forced her to be hanged from a pear tree with a silken scarf...
...brought off quickly, might have had more effect than many men of good will would care to admit. But in the end it encountered overriding objections, and the U.S. gained credit throughout the world for separating itself last week from the conduct of its oldest allies. For as a sovereign remedy, the peace of imposed power takes little account of the cries of the less strong, or the pleas of peoples aspiring to freedom...
...steppe have come barbaric conquerors, feudal overlords, religious crusaders, imperialists and Communists, but to the Poles they have always been the Rosjanie-the Russians. Though often overrun, cut up and reduced, the Poles-even Polish Communists-have never yielded the intense belief that they are a nation, separate and sovereign...
...eludes my sad, my tortured soul.") In one of the most delightful scenes, his minister, Prince Shuisky, guilefully played by N. Khanayev, reports that the pretender's forces are nearing Moscow. Catching the drift of the wind. Boris remarks that there is no pretender, the pretender Dmitri is the sovereign, "and Shuisky for perjury shall be quartered...