Visitors whose attention skates over the depths of perception and feeling in Storr's Biennale are not wrong, if the purpose of new art now is, as the dictatorship of commerce affirms, to enable a general glorying in products of creative crackle and fizz, never mind graver yearnings of the soul and dire news of the day.
Otherwise, it's business as usual at City Ballet, which means general choreographic glory.
And with Truman rushing across the Pacific to bask in the general's glory, no one was able to restrain him.
But after their Tour de France success, Sky's focus is on further general classification glory rather than stage wins, which might not suit Cavendish.
Unlike his successor in Vietnam, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, a former tank commander who almost always looked rumpled, General Westmoreland gloried in the glittering dress whites he wore to formal receptions, and he wore tailored, pre-faded, immaculately pressed fatigues in the countryside, sleeves precisely rolled up, trousers bloused above his boot-tops.
Heaven was not merely a general idea of glory but a particular idea of reincarnation: in the afterlife you wouldn't just linger as a well-meaning spirit; you'd get your whole body back, good as new.
Before the White House, he was a general who won glory in the War of 1812 by defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans.
Could it be a general annoyed and/or glory seeking Fox employee?
"Before him war photography was about generals and the glory of battle," Ms. Makepeace said.
That night I went walking with Ken Layne, publisher of the Desert Oracle, a slender gem of a field guide packed with folklore, freaks and general musings on the glories and weirdness of the desert.
