Word: doges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, that sensibility is frequently in distinguishable from Updike's gilded-gesso prose, a doge's palace of words that are as unexpectedly suited to fill the dreaded emptiness of Kush as they did the drab streets of Olinger, the fictional setting of some of the author's earlier stories...
...Belmont, was well-conceived by Joe Mobilia. In many ways, the scenery deserves the lion's share of the credit for integrating Act Five with the rest of the play. On paper the change from the tragic confrontation of justice and mercy in the high pomp of the Doge's court to the light-headed romanticism and cheeky bawdry of the lover's idyll in Belmont is puzzling. It is difficult to get the bad taste of what has been done to Shylock out of one's mind. But in the theater Shylock can be truly forgotten when...
...from the 9th to the 13th centuries the emerging Venetian culture was saturated with Byzantine prototypes. Venice, in fact, was the main valve through which Byzantine influence in art, architecture, literature and scholarship was pumped into Italy. By one of the treacherous ironies of politics, it was a Venetian doge who, in 1204, diverted the Fourth Crusade to sack Constantinople from end to end, destroying the Byzantine hegemony forever...
...during one of his frequent excursions to the Continent that he met his wife, Elisabeth, in Austria. In 1954, Moncreiff entered Harvard Law School and began to regard Cambridge as his home. Upon graduation from the Law School in 1957, he joined the Boston firm of Palmer and Doge, where he has been a partner since...
...surviving American moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family pooch to visit the trees without getting his paws dirty. House guests received a list of activities each morning, new movies were shown...