Word: ducal
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...outdoor tea garden. There is a penny arcade with a rock-'n'-roll-playing jukebox for the Teddy Boy set, a maze, a miniature train and pony rides for the children. While the ladies can load up at the souvenir shop on bric-a-brac bearing the ducal coat of arms, the men can attend a peepshow called "Ten Beautiful Models in Color and 3-D." Finally, for the benefit of all, there is the duke himself, always around to greet his "guests," to pose for pictures, sign autographs and even judge skiffle contests. "One is," says...
...state censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued wealth and reared up pleasure domes to become what Byron called "the revel...
...know, until I saw this exhibit, I had a rather clear idea of Giorgione," a British tourist said last week, on emerging from Venice's current Giorgione show which spread out lavishly through one entire wing of the Ducal Palace. Most of Italy's art experts had reached the same state of confusion long before. Reason: almost everything about the Renaissance master, except his fame, is in doubt...
Dumas wrote day and night, working with and without collaborators, laughing as the wonderful pages of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before...
...Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters through ducal couriers, was how the slim, shy, blond Juanito should be trained as absolute monarch over what may well prove to be a turbulent Spain. Franco gave Don Juan a fill in on latterday Falangist philosophy, talked about Spain's need for autocratic rule in order to avoid opening the door...