Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Europe of the Past. They were telling retorts, and they persuaded some important Frenchmen. Elder Statesman Vincent Auriol, 81, whom De Gaulle recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other...
...excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy for many tasks, and Rubi stayed on the Dominican diplomatic payroll most of the time until El Benefactor's assassination in 1961. At its first meeting, the new government fired...
...Doting Benefactor. Wagner had other troubles. A republican revolutionary, he was forced to flee Germany in 1849 and was subsequently hounded across Europe by a pack of creditors. His deliverance came in 1864-seven years after he had started work on Tristan-when Ludwig II was crowned king of Bavaria. An effeminate, blue-eyed, ethereally handsome lad who was Wagner's most ardent admirer, Ludwig, then 18, dispatched an emissary to track down his idol, finally discovered the composer holed up in an attic room of a hotel in Stuttgart...
...addition, the king promised Wagner all the money he needed, a new theater, a new music school and a new home. Ludwig also bombarded the 51-year-old composer with tender letters vowing eternal devotion. Wagner, a short, haggard-faced man, was careful not to alienate his doting benefactor, but he had other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans von Bülow, be brought from Berlin to conduct Tristan. While he valued Von Bülow's talents, he was even more anxious to secure those...
Prior to Thannhauser, the museum's sole major benefactor had been its founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes...