Word: courtier
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Even Adams's description of the propionate character of Harvard['s intellectual ideal seems certainly appropriate for 1954-58, it may have been it led some in later decades to courtier the "apathetic...
...time on the run: from a murder charge in Rome in 1606-07, and from the vengeance of the Knights of Malta in 1609-10. He never set up a proper studio with assistants in Naples; he took no pupils, held no salon and had little talent as a courtier. Yet by word of mouth, force of reputation and the example of four or five paintings he executed there, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completely changed the face of Neapolitan painting at the start of the 17th century. A few months after his second arrival in the city, this paranoid, violent...
...DIMLY LIT corner, a courtier clutches a skull and caresses its sockets. Alas, poor Yorick? No--this time the hero is Vindice (vengeance) and skull is that of his love, Gloriana, poisoned by the wicked Duke. Cyril Tourner's The Revenger's Tragedy, while reminiscent of Hamlet, is of a distinct genre: it is not so much a tragedy as a horror play in which vengeance, severing the ties of love and kinship, sweeps its victims toward their own destruction...
...Roof of Western civilization with self-deprecating navvies suffering every slight of outrageous fate, from wars to plagues and back again. Elkin's overview is encapsulated early on when the first George tarries too long before a glorious tapestry. The owner stays the blow of an impatient courtier, allows the stableboy an additional moment of art appreciation and then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves uncommon, and a mockingbird sits on his shoulder. When these...
Architecture is an art in the service of the power it houses, and Speer, the upper-middle-class son and grandson of architects, was a smooth courtier. His stern father (John Gielgud) despised the Nazis from the start for their socialism rather than their nationalism, but Albert felt no foreboding at all. This TV movie wonders just what he was capable of feeling. Hauer is a Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange, Nighthawks) with a sharp-featured face that emotion seems never to have touched. Thus he makes a perfect Speer, whom E. Jack Neuman's teleplay depicts...