Word: titular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the past decade the AST has deserted its titular playwright eight times, but in so doing it has never gone back beyond early Shaw. Now it has reached back to the Restoration comedy of manners, and decided to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Wycherley play's first performance...
Under the constitution that Papadopoulos promulgated in 1968, which provides that the King is titular head of state, last week's announcement that Greece had become a republic was patently illegal. But it did not come as much of a surprise. Originally, the colonels had used the throne as a way of giving their rule some illusion of legitimacy. King Constantine's refusal to return to Greece from exile in Rome until democracy was restored had long since made a mockery of that claim...
Despite Hanoi's powerful military hand, Sihanouk is at least the titular political leader of the K.I. Also increasingly prominent in the movement is an elusive trio known as "the Three Phantoms": Hou Youn, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan, all members of the Assembly, who dropped from sight in 1967 and were later reported to be ministers in Sihanouk's government-in-exile. Their names frequently appear on documents and in radio broadcasts; in a recent interview with TIME, Sihanouk said that Khieu Samphan is his Premier and head of government. There is some doubt among Western intelligence...
...strategy has been to try to strengthen the Lon Nol government in advance of negotiations with the Khmer insurgents. But at the moment the insurgents do not seem to have much interest in negotiating anyway. One unresolved question was whether or not they would accept the titular leadership of deposed Prince Sihanouk, who is strongly backed by both Hanoi and Peking. Although Communist elements among the insurgents have little use for Sihanouk, there was a possibility that they might try to use his popularity with the peasantry to broaden their own movement. One Eastern European diplomat in Phnom-Penh suggested...
...watched our seduction by the Moynihan myth of the black matriarchy. And continually, still, we miss the union and explication of our perceptions of the reality through which we are living, and through which we wish to live; simply because it is so easy to accept the idealizations, those titular and usually meaningless idealizations of our being...