Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great-grandmother was Queen Victoria, who was photographed holding him on her lap in the last year of her life. The children of Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia were his cousins. So was Edward, Prince of Wales, later briefly King Edward VIII of England and interminably the Duke of Windsor, who was best man at his wedding. As a young man, Prince Philip, penniless but promising, married his adored young cousin Lilibet. His sister was the Queen of Sweden. Louis Mountbatten himself--and how he loved it all--was wealthy, flashingly handsome, a polo-playing friend of rajas and movie...
...special place. Its holdings are vast: more than 1.5 million items, ranging from playing cards to Michelangelo drawings. Yet what counts is not their gross but, so to speak, their net: the core of old master drawings and prints assembled, over a lifetime of passionate connoisseurship, by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822). At a time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under...
...years he had agents scouring estates from Rome to London. In 20 years, 1792-1811, he spent more than 1.25 million florins on drawings and prints, ten times the outlay on art of the Austrian imperial court itself. During an era when "art investment" was unheard of, this obsessed duke put a quarter of his fortune into collecting. He died at the age of 84--"a thin old man," according to an account cited by Albertina Director Walter Koschatzky, "with tired, sad eyes, who walked through the rooms alone, followed by a little white dog"--with more than...
Last year the head of the prestigious Duke University School of Law, Paul D. Carrington, wrote in a widely circulated article that "The nihilist who must profess that legal principle does not matter has an ethical duty to depart the law school." That article referred specifically to Unger, but the Duke dean continues to generate considerable controversy in legal and others have criticized both the scholarly ability and the morality of CLS professors in numerous harshly-worded essays. "While the adherents to this banner [CLS] are a varied group, it seems safe to characterize them collectively as nihilists Carrington writes...
...Duke Snider hit 329 home runs in the fifties...