Some 1,300 lucky luminaries then transfer to the city hall for a banquet, also broadcast (a fashion expert even provides a running commentary on the gowns worn by the women).
The many luminaries Sobel profiles include Annie Jump Cannon, who devised Harvard's stellar classification system and evaluated some half a million stars.
In the case of Westworld, the team of writers and producers is a veritable who's who of sci-fi luminaries.
Mr Paul then went on to name — co-opting them to the cause — previous luminaries of sport who had some emancipatory role: "Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe".
Affleck was a guest last October on the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots," in which Gates takes luminaries — Sting, Stephen King, Angela Bassett — on journeys into their pasts.
Indeed, it felt so utterly exhilarating that I held many of my meetings outdoors, strolling around in the warmth with various venture capitalists and tech luminaries.
Billionaire financier Warren Buffett is encouraging the very wealthy to give away at least half their worth in their lifetimes through the "Giving Pledge," whose website lists such luminaries as Microsoft Corp's Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc and Oracle Corp's Larry Ellison.
Unlike the film industry's red-carpet premieres, Hollywood luminaries and huge advertising budgets,book launches with signings and readings are a more staid affair.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
