Word: sir
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...oldest form of modern art, a fact that is rich in historical irony since the Academy was the last bastion of "traditional" art to hold out against the encroachment of modernism. Long after the Museum of Modern Art in New York became a going concern, Royal Academicians like Sir Alfred Munnings were still rising over their port at Academy banquets to denounce Cézanne as a fumbler and Van Gogh as a crop-eared madman. No doubt their offended ghosts are gibbering in the courtyard at the thought of all of Burlington House being turned over to the largest exhibition...
...always was an authoritarian film director and, on television, an acerbic mystery-show host. But advancing age has banked some of the old fire, and at 80, Sir Alfred Hitchcock is likely to be, as Chaucer put it, "a verray parfit gentil knight." Hitchcock's name as Knight Commander of the British Empire appeared on Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honors list, the only show-biz personality knighted this year. Fittingly, he received formal notification of the honor at a ceremony in the commissary at Universal City Studios. Why, Hitchcock was asked, had it taken...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger (London, 5 LPs, 1976). The man who led the first recorded Ring cycle, Sir Georg Solti, turns from gods and heroes to a warm, glowing account of everyday life in old Nürnberg...