He was elated to be in the company of Richard Hofstadter, Peter Gay, and Garrett Mattingly, and became so enamored of the city that he designated himself New York Goy.
Among the images in the exhibition, organized by Wendy Salmond, an art history professor at Chapman University in California, are his precisely rendered pictures of the cap and orb of Monomakh (a medieval Russian leader), imperial regalia used by the czars during coronation ceremonies until Peter the Great (who, when he designated himself emperor, commissioned the imperial crown of Russia).
The Rev. Max L. Stackhouse, a professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, said he first glimpsed Pastor Neuhaus marching in Selma, Ala., in a row of clergy members flanking the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "He thought that somebody ought to be out front carrying the ball, and he designated himself, and he was pretty good at it," Dr. Stackhouse said.
He designates himself as "Scots-Irish", taking care to distinguish the people of "Greater Appalachia" from "the WASPS of the north-east".
That chopped-and-screwed self-portrait, the one in which he designates himself as a "loser", also proclaims him a "joker" and, in a complex pun, a rastaquouère: a nouveau-riche foreigner.
Defoe was clearly proud of this work, because he sometimes designated himself "Author of 'The True-Born Englishman'" in later works.
The talks are starting in Washington, not in the region; he has designated himself the only spokesman for the very delicate start-up process, not the parties, and at least for now neither side is prepared to discuss publicly — or convey directly to each other — the parameters that will guide the negotiations.
He at once designated himself "heir of the kingdom of Scotland," clearly anticipating the vindication of his claim, which was derived from his mother, daughter of Margaret, eldest daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon, brother to kings Malcolm IV and William I the Lion.
Mr. Gibbs, who had a messenger business on West 47th Street, formed a distribution ring he called the Ministry, designated himself the commander in chief, named a prime minister, and sent his crew to peddle token slugs by the tens of thousands.
He self-designated himself as African-American, and took pride in that then, and that hasn't changed.
In late November, he held a National Congress at Jajce in the liberated area of northwestern Yugoslavia and designated himself Marshal and Prime Minister.
