Word: xiv
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oxygen of the epigram. W.H. Auden, who collected and concocted them, readily admitted that "aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre. Implicit is a conviction that [the writer] is wiser than his readers." François de La Rochefoucauld was a duke; elbowed out of prominence in Louis XIV's court, he retreated to an estate to polish his words until nobility could see its face in the surface: "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others"; "In jealousy there is more self-love than love"; "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue"; "Lovers never...
With its picket fences, modest cottages and colonial-era ambience, Williamsburg, Va., could hardly offer a greater contrast to the regal grandeur and formality of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles. The heads of government from the Big Seven industrial nations* are hoping that the outcome of their ninth annual economic summit, to be held in Williamsburg at the end of this month, will be equally different. Last year's summit in Versailles degenerated into bitter wrangling over East-West trade, and the leaders are desperately anxious to avoid a replay...
...transcendent white military greatcoat-is "objectively" a hilarious spoof, done in clumsily tight parody of the 17th century grand manner. But then, if these sleek pictorial tropes are I so absurd when lavished on Stalin, why should they be any less so when used on Louis XIV, Peter the Great or Sany other enlightened despot...
...sumptuous spectacular, the high theater that Ronald Reagan thrives on, with all the world as his stage. Meetings with six world leaders at the stunning Versailles Palace of Louis XIV. Gracious toasts at glittering dinners. Statesmanlike reaffirmations of Western unity. And of course, as always with Reagan, affable banter with foreign politicians and American reporters alike. On the personal level, the President's Grand Tour of Europe got off to a heady start last week in France. Reagan displayed the same style and charm that has disarmed friend and foe at home...
...First Lady visited a center for the blind and a school for chefs in Paris and on Sunday attended a ceremony in Normandy honoring the Americans who fell in the D-day invasion 38 years earlier, while her husband was closeted with the chiefs of government in Louis XIV's palace...