Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
Mame is the Mother Courage of Beekman Place. Stock-market crashes and depressions don't faze her. Pregnant unwed secretaries waddling down spiral staircases amid Japanese modern mobiles don't lift her eyebrows. When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive. Mame has gusto, gallantry, and an unshakable philosophy: "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death...
...publisher wants to be an aristocrat, let him first cease to publish a newspaper...
...girls themselves are not the most promising lot. Adele, played by Gunnel Lindblom, is a sullen servant wretch whose impending miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...
Giuseppe himself was no noble-just a wily, smily commoner with an aristocrat's taste for the high life and an artist's delight in illusion. Inflamed by the success of an earlier minor effort, he determines to fill a hiatus in the historical records with a phony account of the foundations of feudalism in Sicily. He calls it The Council of Egypt. To the nobles he hints that their ancient rights may be demolished by his findings; all at once, gifts and invitations to dine pour in upon Giuseppe. To the King in Naples he insists that...