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Three Skulls. Inside the throne room, the King sat cross-legged on the heavily gilded wooden throne, which is embellished with the images of lions and thunderbolts. He was surrounded by 13 silk brocaded cushions. On a covered table in front of him rested the seven royal gems, which the Bhutanese believe are essential to ensure the strength, health and benevolence of their rulers...
Miss Johnson--everyone calls her Miss Johnson--is "generally acknowledged to be the pivot of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Dean Rosovsky says. She is the archetypal power behind the throne. She came to Harvard in 1940 ("I hate to boast this," she says), just after she graduated from college, as a junior employee in the dean's office. Three years later, the secretary to the dean left, and she took over...
...Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits on the throne of honor as the No. 1 dramatist in Hades. (In Aristophanes' original it is Aeschylus.) A battle royal of quotations ensues between Shakespeare (Jeremy Geidt) and Shaw (Anthony Holland). The chorus of jurors votes against Shaw on the grounds that he is a dry, cerebral rationalist while Shakespeare...
...purpose of these ritual "impeachments" was both to affirm the unity of the people around the kingship and to highlight conflicts around the person of the king himself. Even when no prince or sub-chieftan actually coveted the throne, the ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with...
...this is 1974. And this year's crop of speedballs has produced, thus far, no outstanding pretenders to Secretariat's throne. As a matter of fact, the three-year-old picture is a toss...