Word: adamses
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The old East Room in the White House has heard it all. Abigail Adams flapping out her wash; the tramp of British troops setting fire to the place; cheers for Ulysses Grant, brought from the West to win the war; the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's...
This is only the second year of the arts medal, but the awards already have a sense of importance about them. Ronald Reagan lauded the honorees very / quietly and eloquently "for crowning our nation's greatness with grace." It was an echo of sorts from a thought expressed 200 years...
The Adams House resident was the only undergraduate ever to serve in this capacity. Hastings plans to continue studying business-economics, and told Glamour that she "hopes to spend many years wading through rice paddies and banging on ministerial doors."
To bolster its own collection of Kovacs' work, the museum sifted through 200 tapes kept in storage by Edie Adams, Kovacs' widow and longtime co-star. She had rescued some of the material from ABC shortly after Kovacs' death, when the network was starting to record over it. "I took...
Kovacs was one of TV's great originals, partly because he approached the medium as something totally new, not as an extension of radio or vaudeville. "He was really sure of what television wasn't," says Edie Adams, "and was trying to find out what it was." In the course...