Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles within the nation's most influential newspaper...
...Kingdom and the Power, Talese...
...review of the frigate H.M.S. Eastbourne involved the time-honored British chip. "You'll have to come to Buckingham Palace," she told a navy cook after tasting his fried potatoes. "We don't have any chips there." Not so, a palace spokesman hastened to reassure all the kingdom's chip fanciers. "It's not a case of chips with everything, but I'm sure the royal family do have chips...
When the Geneva accords established Laotian neutrality seven years ago, hope flickered briefly that they would also bring an end to fighting between Communist and non-Communist forces and take the kingdom out of the cold war. No such thing happened, of course: the treaty-stipulated tripartite regime, composed of rightist, neutralist and leftist factions, collapsed in short order. Laos' Communists, the Pathet Lao, walked out of the government; the fighting resumed, and has been going on in desultory if often deadly fashion ever since...
Satire is currently in such short supply that Downey has acquired a small but vocal following, who seem to regard him as a kind of cinematic Rabelais. The title is his strictly by default. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Or at least some kind of prince...