Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
Some conservatives of the period sought to prove that the liberal idea of society was unrealistic, he asserted. Their leaders, Hartz said, men such as Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, pointed to the permanent character of social coercion and urged a return to the older conservative concepts. But, he continued, the ideals which the liberals had initiated were irradically set in public opinion...
...Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf) on a canvas only 30 inches wide, compressed in the scene 48 convincingly grouped portrait figures (at the table before John Hancock stand John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin). Though the subject lacked action. Trumbull conveyed something of its drama and suppressed excitement in the jagged arrangement of the heads and the flaring banners on the wall. Unlike Trumbull's sparing canvas, the fantastic Historical Monument to the American Republic stretches out to an immense...
...Countess Altamira, and two matching portraits by 15th century painter Francesco del Cossa. Their first modest plunge, which today would strain most museum budgets, barely caused a ripple in an art world then dominated by such high, wide spenders as J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick and Benjamin Altman...
William Ewart Gladstone, his more ardent admirers were to become convinced, had been sent to earth to trounce the foul Tory fiend Benjamin Disraeli, to be four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History records William's success in all these spheres, but it bypasses his extraordinary wife. Catherine was such an attractive woman that even Queen Victoria, who came to loathe Gladstone, almost forgave her for being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked...