Word: royalism
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...wealthy father was one of his patrons. But in Goya's Ghosts he is pretty much what he was in life - the politically temporizing foreground observer of Ines' anguish, which is symbolic, in its way, of Spain's anguish as the 18th Century turned into the 19th, its royal family deposed by the bloodily invading French, who were, in turn, defeated by the British. Mostly (and this is historically true) Goya wished to pursue his genius unhindered by political intrusion. If that meant painting portraits - many of them subtly touched by his loathing - of all his country's rulers, that...
Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, will be the new music director of New York Philharmonic beginning in September 2009, the organization announced Tuesday...
Gilbert was also the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. In May, he stepped down as music director of the Santa Fe Opera, and, next season, he’ll end his tenure with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he has occupied since...
PRINCE TOMOHITO, cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito, confirming his struggle with alcoholism in an unprecedented royal disclosure...
...biggest worry in the year before the election was that Strauss-Kahn would win the [Socialist] primary, and campaign on the kinds of policies and vision for France that Sego could never come up with," says a Socialist party member who opposes what he calls a "depressingly feasible" Royal leadership if DSK moves to Washington to lead the IMF. "No one disagrees that Strauss-Kahn is right for job, but you'd have to be blind not to see that his exit from the domestic scene is in Sarko's political interests. More Sego and less DSK means better chances...