One effect of focusing on notable personages is that issues that cannot easily be reduced to questions of personality get short shrift.
Instead John offers a series of studies of how his father interacted with various notable personages, from George S. Patton and Bernard Law Montgomery to Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle.
The Famous Personage arrived in a carload of my friends.
The Famous Personage said Yes! We arranged transportation for her.
Albums of photographs of famous personages in the arts.
(When its current editor, Joyce Wadler, took a six-week break recently, she subheaded that item with a self-mocking "Air Kiss! Smooch! Ciao!") The column covers the doings of celebrities, media biggies, fashion plates, show-biz stars, haut-monde notables, perennial personages and others famous for their fame.
Personage and notable are long passé, high muck-a-muck has reverted to the Chinook jargon, kingpin is reserved for drug dealers and dignitary elicits a crass hoot.
Grains et issues was accompanied by Personage d'insomnie ("Personage of Insomnia"), which went unpublished.
"Any Human Heart" is a kind of "Forrest Gump" for the literate: an intimate, picaresque chronicling of the life of a fictional British writer who intersects with notable events, ideas and personages of the 20th century in ways both amusing and catastrophic.
By then the restaurant had become synonymous with fine dining, and just about every important personage in New York and famous visitor to the city, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, dined at "Del's," as its competitors, like Rector's and Louis Sherry, became equally notable for the grandeur and scale of their décor and cuisine.
