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...Washington Irving. Nature was in fashion. A speaker exhorted the nascent American Academy of Fine Arts in 1825: "The genius of your country points you to its stupendous cataracts and its ranging mountains. There, where nature needs no fictitious charms, place on the canvas the lovely landscape, and adorn our houses with American prospects and American skies." Cole may well have listened to this very injunction, having worked his way to New York by this time. During the summer he embarked on what was to be the first of many summer sketching trips up the Hudson River Valley...
...first installment, Shakespeare sticks closely to business. There are in Richard II no scenes of comic relief such as adorn the three succeeding installments. Here the dramatist concentrates on four main phases: Richard's regnal recklessness: his cousin Bolingbroke's victorious invasion to retrieve his rightful property; Richard's voluntary abdication; and Bolingbroke's assured assumption of the throne as Henry...
...hold up remarkably well, even though they celebrate the memory of a simple, ardent and unskeptical U.S. that no longer exists. No one now can summon up the unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker and theatergoer will always feel a special tingle of sentiment from the opening bars of Give My Regards to Broadway, but the contrast with the squalor of Times Square now is painful...
...austere, bespectacled New York investment banker who, as Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta National and the Masters tournament with an iron hand. "We don't want to look at the ugly things the year round." No tennis courts, no swimming pool, no children's playgrounds adorn the Augusta National-nothing, in short, to detract from golf...
...Regrets. The decor will be, in Mrs. Abell's word, "Christmasy." Holly and topiary trees flecked with "teeny white lights" will adorn the East Room. Seven attendants in gowns of Goya red will vie for the eye with the 32-member Marine Band's scarlet tunics. The groom, Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, will wear his dress blues. He has had little say in the preparations. "Mostly, he's chief in charge of the honeymoon," Mrs. Abell explains...