Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of L. A. Huffman, who was perhaps the best of the photographers who tried to document the old West. Here are 124 splendidly direct and realistic pictures devoted to cowboy country and life in the '80s and '90s. Informative text, a fine piece of Americana...
...conceived in 1946 when Virgil T. received a commission from the Alice M. Ditson Fund, New York, to write a new opera. Gertrude immediately set to work on the libretto, though the first pains of her fatal cancer slowed progress. Virgil's only stipulation, in suggesting 19th century Americana as the subject, was that it have "nothing to do with Abraham Lincoln...
...CURRIER & IVES TREASURY, edited by Colin Simkin (Crown; $10), contains 80 prints in color, generous in size (10 in. by 14 in.), and calculated to hasten the pulse of anyone devoted to forthright Americana...
...m.p.h. and a price low enough ($4,297) to compete with the Jaguar and Lancia cars. Since its first Sportwagen was produced just six years ago, Porsche has won innumerable speed and endurance titles (420 in 1954 alone). Last year at Mexico's 1,908-mile Carrera Pan-Americana, four-cylinder Porsche Spyder 550s (top speed: 140 m.p.h.) won four out of the first five places in the small sports-car competition, third and fourth in the race for all classes...
...could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes the reader wonder how New England ever acquired a reputation for being stolid and conservative...