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Biographer Rhodes James' nomination of the Prince Consort as "perhaps the most astute and ambitious politician of his age" seems one compliment too far; Metternich was still active in the decade when Albert married Victoria, and Bismarck became Premier of Prussia in 1862, the year after Albert died. This Albert memorial serves mainly to persuade readers that, compared with most European royalty, the Prince was a giant. Alas, a giant among royalty is only man-size anywhere else...
...student shook his head "Quite understandable," chuckled the professor "Scholars around the world have yet to come up with a satisfactory question. Quite understandable can you summarize on education?" The student shook his head. "How about a summary of Bismarck's coursed of imperial unification. "Well, then," said the professor, "what were the dates of the French Revolution?" Silence, "Within 15 years?" Still no response. "How about the American revolution?" Nothing, "Well, can you tell me roughly where France and Germany are geographically located, in relation to the United States...
DIED. Edward Crankshaw, 75, British scholar who turned out 16 graceful, lively, popular histories and biographies on such subjects as Nikita Khrushchev, Austria's Habsburgs, Germany's Bismarck and Authors Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad; of cancer; in Hawkhurst, England...
...flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo: "Our relations with the Sandinistas have totally deteriorated...
Rubin is one of the world's most voluminously informed and tough-minded art historians. His approach to his specialty, the art of the 20th century, has an intimidating, Bismarck-like tread that induces a kind of resentful faintness in some of his colleagues. But nobody could accuse him of not thinking long and hard about whatever he scrutinizes, and he has been responsible for some of MOMA's curatorial masterpieces, including the 1980 Picasso retrospective and the 1977 show of late Cézanne. To rehang a collection like MOMA'S-to make new neighbors...