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...story of these natural noblemen, and of their ignoble exceptions, is told for the first time in something like full detail by British Historian Patrick Pringle. His grace of style, his assiduous research in old newspapers and chapbooks, and above all, the teeming fascinations of his subject, make Stand and Deliver a fast, exciting excursion down a secondary road of historical inquiry...
Porhaps the most successful (and most unique) part of the program was a series of glees, canons, and catches. These are unaccompanied choral pieces vaguely related to rounds, and they are sometimes intricately constructed. The "Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of Adams House" picked its way gingerly through four glees, a canon, and a catch, accompanying its singing with stage actions such as shrugged shoulders and waving forefingers. This organization claims descent from the original Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club (1761) which punished sour notes by making the offender drink a glass of wine. "It is this spirit...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray...
...were dynamic, practical men and forces in the community, Masonry became a quiet but dynamic force in history. It carried 18th Century Protestant civilization into the frontiers of North America. It helped sow the seeds of the French Revolution-and thereby contributed to the destruction of the enlightened French noblemen who had taken...
...comparison, the character of Beaumarchais remains a paper doll. So do most of Feuchtwanger's supporting players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...