Word: vii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Victoria proved remarkably blameless in her public conduct, but it has been less and less easy for her descendants. There were problems with her eldest son as Prince of Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
...King Henry VII of England awarded explorer John Cabot (pounds)10 for finding "the new isle," and Newfoundland it has been ever since. Legend has Cabot's men lowering wicker baskets into the teeming Atlantic and bringing them up laden with cod. For more than 400 years the hardy Newfoundlanders who settled "the Rock" competed vigorously with Europeans in the rich fishery that developed. Too vigorously: the cod supply has been so depleted that Canadian fishermen were forced last week to haul in their nets, traps and boats along the entire northeastern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to begin...
...Hindu, but the Bayon was built as a Buddhist shrine. While Angkor Wat soars, the Bayon suffocates. It is crowded with 54 sandstone towers, each with four carved visages of a complacently smiling future Buddha, or bodhisattva. The faces are probably likenesses of the temple's builder, King Jayavarman VII. The King, whose vigorous rule turned out to be the death rattle of the Angkor civilization, went on perhaps the greatest building spree of all Khmer kings, but the sandstone available by his time was of a much lower quality than that used at Angkor Wat. When first discovered...
Robertson's main focus is the historic class action, sex discrimination suit against the Times, Boylan v. The New York Times, which the Times Women's Caucus filed in 1974 against its venerable boss. The suit, which was known in legal, journalistic and feminist circles as the "Title VII World Series," was eventually settled in 1978, despite the Times's prior insistence that it would fight the women's claims all the way. Indeed, the suit had become a huge source of embarassment for the renowned newspaper, which had until that point stood firmly as one of the great bastions...
...suit reflected the problems of women in the field generally, and of all working women before the days of Title VII litigation. Hence, the title, Girls in the Balcony. The balcony in this case is the balcony of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. During the 1950s and '60s, "every man of consequence on the globe" who had anything important to say would do so in a speech at the club, Robertson tells. The problem was, however, that the club did not allow women as members. After much rumbling from the women, the club eventually devised a plan...