Word: elizabethaning
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...performing a trilogy by Donizetti that began last season when she sang Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux, and will be rounded off next year when she sings Elizabeth's mother in Anna Bolena. The whole project, as City Opera Director Julius Rudel says, amounts to a sort of Elizabethan Ring...
...Budapest, where Husband Richard Burton is making a movie called Bluebeard, the beautiful 40-year-old invited some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom he built the Taj Mahal. Shah Richard promised to match the cost of the pendant (guesstimate: $100,000) with a donation to charity; he also...
Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...
...Decay. Up to a point, Bacon's art, in all its hazard and abiding strangeness, grows out of the terms of his life. Born in Ireland in 1909, a descendant of the great Elizabethan Sir Francis Bacon, he spent a childhood whose ambience was decayed status, country eccentricity and the violence of Irish civil war. When Francis was 17, his father caught him trying on his mother's underwear, and banished him from the house. With no special qualifications or ambition, Bacon drifted his way round Europe-to Berlin and afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior...
...reader is fending off the fine words with his free hand and shouting "Enough!" And yet ... and yet ... (as Novelist Garrett, whose prose is measled with portentous dots, might write) the gaudy style is grounded in intelligence, and it fits the character and the times. Raleigh, the last Elizabethan, had swagger and intelligence in excess. That being so, it was wise of the author to be liberal; excess carefully spooned would be absurd...