Word: austro
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...
...than Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, 61, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia. For years, he was a silent but unforgotten symbol of the war between Communism and Christianity, but he did not come quickly to his calling. The seventh of eleven children born to a farm family, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was twice decorated for valor before being captured by the Italians. After the Armistice, he studied agriculture and economics, planning to take over the family farm, but in 1924 he decided on the priesthood and went to study in Rome. He was ordained...
Aristocracy, like fine cheese, is usually at its most interesting in an advanced state of decay. Chekhov demonstrated this in prerevolutionary Russia, William Faulkner in post-Civil War America. Theoretically the decline of the Austro-Hungarian nobility before and after World War I ought to make equally pungent fiction. Unfortunately this is only sometimes the case in Author de Born's new novel, the second installment of a trilogy (the first, Felding Castle, published early last year, was set in 1900 and carried a nostalgic remembrance of that time of sunlit lawns, masquerade balls and respectful peasants...