Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the Nation's trappings were repossessed by some of the Nation's true rulers. On the other hand, I am more than a little Queasy about the prospect of a similar scene - only magnified 10, 20 or an unimaginable number of times. There will not, Sir, I warrant, be enough Trappings to go around...
Compliments to Mrs. Carter. I am Sir with high reguard for your charec-tor Yr. Most Obedient servant...
...nearest highway and start thumbing rides to anywhere. On one of these time-killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg. He had never in his life looked at a work of art as art, and the first thing that struck him was "that someone...
...Some Schiff associates speculate that Murdoch's publishing success and personal vigor remind her of the late Lord Beaverbrook, her fond mentor. But unlike Beaverbrook, who used his newspapers to influence British politics, Murdoch is out to make merry and money. The son of a prominent Australian journalist, Sir Keith Murdoch, Oxford-educated Rupert inherited a lackluster Adelaide daily in 1952 and parlayed it into an empire on three continents that today includes 87 newspapers, eleven magazines, seven broadcast stations, and an airline service. Publicity-shy but grimly determined, Murdoch recently sold his farm outside London to allow more...
Among the three international superstars of conducting, Sir Georg Solti and Leonard Bernstein are almost overly familiar to audiences in the U.S. Herbert von Karajan is a more remote, elusive figure. In 1955 he was appointed conductor for life of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the finest orchestras in the world. In the years since, he has exercised complete control over its rehearsals, working conditions, personnel and guest artists. Today he can say: "I cannot now blame anybody else for not getting the results I want. No excuses. If it's wrong, it's entirely my fault...