Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily pressagented event had been arranged by aides of the singer, NBC, and Johnny Carson's staff, which gleefully provided the vaguely Louis XVI set and wardrobe. To build ratings, the ceremony was delayed through an insufferable hour with Diller and Singer Florence Henderson. The rites were relatively decorous-and held down to ten minutes so that there were no commercial interruptions. The cameras stayed discreetly behind the couple as they vowed "to be sweet, gentle, kind, patient, not puffed up, charitable, slow to anger and swift to forgive...
...beautiful princess who has borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe's noble blood. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Spain's last ruling king, the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and a direct descendant of Louis XVI, France's last Bourbon monarch...
Readers who spotted errors, or thought they did, seemed more than anxious to point them out. When the magazine seated Charles de Gaulle in a Louis XV rather than a Louis XVI chair, we heard about it. And we were sternly reprimanded for ascribing a brief quote to Aeschylus. (The author was Hesiod...
When Louis XVI succeeded Louis XV in 1774, the rococo was superseded by the neoclassical mode, an improbable amalgam of Roman severity and Bourbon frivolity exemplified by the small writing desk that stands between two tapestry-covered Louis XV armchairs. The desk's spare lines are in conflict with the riot of gilded tassels, leaves, garlands and mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon...
...Worthy of Louis XVI," Mandel termed the belittling comments toward student action in France. These "vanguard youth," he said, have been working constantly over the past five years, united in the struggle against "capitalist imperialism...