Word: sword
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played by David Ripley, is every bit her equal. Last night, even managed to ad lib through a fight despite an accidentally broken sword. And as a singer, his controlled power carried the evening. The accompanying orchestra quartet--complete with harp--offered lively assistance...
...most formidable sword, of course, remains national disunity. Like all Presidents-elect, Nixon has been enjoying the traditional honeymoon with the nation in his first weeks after election. He has used the quiet time that often follows the end of a long campaign to forge an Administration privately and deliberately. Nixon knows well that the decisions he makes on appointments between now and the first of the year will determine the character of his Administration for many months, and the public's reaction to it. The President-elect has also begun work on his Inaugural Address, hoping that...
Goldman, who adapted the screenplay from his 1966 Broadway drama, can hardly be blamed for that, but he does not even seem to know who the real James Goldman is. Sometimes he seems to be a swaggering Elizabethan playwright whose rhetorical sword never gets out of its scabbard. "The sky is pocked with stars," sighs Henry. "Has my willow turned to poison oak?" he inquires of his mistress. At other times, Goldman is an anachronistic historian. "It's 1183, and we're all barbarians," announces the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Often Goldman is simply...
...feel that TIME has never presented the war in Spain for what it was-an inexcusable and unjustifiable act of aggression by reactionary forces against a popular government." Retorted a disdainful Goldsborough: "On the side of Franco are men of property, men of God and men of the sword. In so describing them, I presume that I condemn them to particularly nether depths, but what position do you suppose these sort of men (irrespective of nationality) occupy in the minds of 700,000 readers of TIME...
...sinking span for stone-by-stone reconstruction in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a new town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next day Jesus Esquerra, an Indian chief whose Chemehuevi tribe once owned the land, presented Sir Gilbert with a robe and headdress and rechristened...