The names of the critics read like a legal establishment hall of fame.
Edward Gibbon, after writing the last words of his six-volume "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," walked out into his moonlit garden on June 27 , 1787 and dissected his feelings in terms that are reminiscent of Massie's: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Caro is a great student of Gibbon, and he must be familiar with what Gibbon wrote in his house at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1787, after completing his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire": "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Rao's, an Italian establishment of such fame that neither Mr. Barone, nor the certain party (by the name of Albert Circelli), nor most of the rest of New York City's citizens can get a table, was packed with Monday night's regular crowd.
Before Southcliffe, Faversham's claim to fame was the establishment of Britain's first gunpowder plant in the 16th century.
As Ellison struggled, many people thought they had his number: he had ascended to fame, to honors, to establishment friends and clubs, and all of that finished him as a writer.
But teaching his entire life at Birkbeck College, in London, rather than at the Ph.D.-factory establishments (like Oxbridge), Hobsbawm, despite his fame, did not develop legions of graduate students.
For more than two decades, Burning Man has been the antithesis of the art establishment, avoiding the social stratifications created by fame and pedigree, embracing a credo of egalitarianism and "radical inclusion".
Rauch may be barely known outside the art world, but fame is increasingly superfluous to the establishment of an artist's sinecure.
