Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing the part in broad style, Virginia's Democratic Governor Thomas B. Stanley dolled himself up in a plumed Elizabethan helmet, brandished a replica of an ancient musket, appeared ready to defend the ramparts against all attackers. Actually, he was merely lending his gubernatorial presence to ceremonies opening a historical festival in the 350-year-old settlement of Jamestown...
...Elizabethan Barbecue. In the Elysée Palace alone, 263 workmen were getting things ready for Elizabeth and her husband. First it was decided that they should sleep in Napoleon Bonaparte's huge bronze and mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Scenes from notable Greek, Elizabethan and contemporary plays...
...courses were served on Royal Worcester blue and gold, Chelsea, Derby and Minton porcelain. Then the ladies floated to the French salon on a cloud of chatter, admired the companion-piece oval Boucher paintings as they gossiped. The gentlemen warmed their brandy in the Lord Nelson room, surrounded by Elizabethan paneling that Nelson himself had admired when it was on the walls of a bedroom in the Star Hotel at Great Yarmouth. The party then assembled for music...
...desolation. Some of this was sheer melodramatics, but in part it foreshadowed the revolt of the natural man against an age of prudery. Compared to his friend Dickens, the English writing colossus of the century, Collins was a minor Victorian, but in the sense that Marlowe is a minor Elizabethan alongside Shakespeare. He was the best of the secondbest, and his growing status as "must" reading for highbrow novelists has been signalized by a T. S. Eliot essay. This biography by Nuel Pharr Davis, a University of Illinois English instructor, is intellectually skimpy, but as a personal history of Collins...