He had not shown much anguish about signing a proclamation of 1934 in which the country's cultural luminaries exhorted the electorate to ratify Hitler's seizure of total power.

He always said that he cared little for posterity and recognition, but French officials and cultural luminaries lined up to pay homage to him after his death.

Satirical skits were first offered as a single performance gala on New Year's Eve to the city's cultural and political luminaries, who paid 100 rubles a ticket.

Frankfurt's mayor, Petra Roth, was immediately besieged by cultural luminaries across Europe expressing dismay over the fate of the city's best-known artistic treasure.

Auden is just one of countless cultural luminaries who crop up in the first volume of Christopher Simon Sykes's two-part biography, Hockney.

Its charms also drew cultural luminaries, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose writings romanticized its past.

Jan Six was a political and cultural luminary in the golden age of commerce and the arts in the Netherlands.

Alumni Stadium has hosted numerous intellectual and cultural luminaries, religious leaders and heads of state as the venue for Boston College's annual Commencement Exercises since 1957.

Then in 1998, to the fury of many French cultural luminaries, the government-owned Crédit Lyonnais sold the hall to a businessman, Hubert Martigny.

James Lord, the 74-year-old American biographer and writer on art, has lived mostly in Paris for the last 50 years, making it his business to befriend cultural luminaries.