Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial for organizing a paramilitary outfit called the Free Wales Army, and last week the court was told of a document found in the home of one defendant detailing plans to murder young Charles "if necessary" to prevent his investiture at Caernarvon Castle. Unmoved, Charles maintained his royal composure and went about his studies of Welsh language and history at the University College of Wales...
These days, Léger spends most of his time traveling through Cameroon to preside at confirmation ceremonies. He is also laying plans for a new center for all kinds of handicapped Africans. This fall, Leger will return briefly to Montreal to receive Canada's $50,000 Royal Bank Award for humanitarian achievement. Léger has earmarked the money for his center, for which he hopes to raise an additional $1,000,000 in Canada. He regards the center as a kind of beau geste that will inspire others to help Africa help itself. "I have always believed...
...them a luxurious life-style that included a listing in the Social Register and a spuriously noble family tree-an embellishment not unheard of in those days among Americans with pretensions. One of the Auchinclosses, John Davis notes, concocted a chart tracing the family's descent from the royal lines of England, Scotland and France...
Cheers from Patients. Five years ago, Bialoguski moved to England, set up a practice in the London suburb of Epsom and launched his musical quest in earnest. The Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music both rejected him as too old to enroll in conducting courses, so he practiced with amateur orchestras around London. When he approached Sir Adrian Boult, the doyen of British conductors, Boult offered to become his patient if he would stick to medicine. Instead, Bialoguski took a master class in conducting with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy. Eventually, Boult let Bialoguski rehearse the New Philharmonia...
During his lifetime, Constable painstakingly built his reputation on half-a-dozen large, carefully organized "studio" pictures that he showed at the annual exhibitions of Britain's stuffy Royal Academy. To please contemporary taste, these pictures usually centered on some narrative incident, such as a white horse being ferried across the Stour. But many of the works on view are preliminary oil sketches and studies. Some critics argue that these quick sketches have a freshness and spontaneity that were lost in the labor of producing the larger final pictures...