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...baton master, Sargent was lionized in British music circles for four decades. Critics respected the 19th century grandeur that characterized all his work and cheered especially the fioriture he summoned in such choral classics as Handel's Messiah. To audiences, he was "Flash Harry," the impeccably groomed courtier of the orchestra stage, raconteur, and international socialite. His own favorite appearances were at cavernous Royal Albert Hall's immensely popular "prom" annuals, where for 20 summers he introduced young Britons to the exciting pleasures of great music...
...life he did not want his counsel to be a courtier, and in death he would not want his biography confined to eulogies," writes Sorensen. For all that, he candidly admits that his book "is not even a neutral account," but a loyal follower's tribute...
Viansson-Ponte is a court chronicler without being courtier. As political editor of the prestigious Le Monde, he has free access to inner government circles even though he is not a Gaullist. This position gives him a rare detachment: he is able to write knowledgeably about De Gaulle while avoiding both the admiration of a follower and the jealousy of an opponent. The King and His Court resembles the Duc de Saint-Simson's colorful Memoirs about life with Louis XIV, full of sympathy and gossip, yet it retains the ironical view-point of a journalist somewhat skeptical about...
Chaucer visited Italy in the 14th century, and Shakespeare patterned numerous plays on Italian scenarios, but it took the Renaissance's archetypical gentleman, Castiglione, author of The Book of the Courtier, to import the pictorial arts to Britain. A diplomat to Henry VII, he brought as a gift a portrait of St. George by Raphael...
...Bobby Kennedy," said Dave Powers, White House courtier in Jack's Administration, "has to be first all the time." That goes for everything, from a pickup game of touch football to managing his brother's presidential race. When he played touch football, his daughter Kathleen, now 13, would occasionally show up with her friends to cheer: Clap your hands and stamp your feet 'Cause Daddy's team, Daddy's team, can't be beat...