Word: basil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built their fabled 14-acre "Pickfair" and proposed that the community be walled off from the outside world, when the Basil Rathbones ordered snow one slow summer day, provided sleds and skis for a couple of hundred friends. Beverly Hills was then, and is now, the most glamorous suburb...
...sent the South Africans to run the Congo," District officials say when they are sure no one is listening. It is these men--John McMillan of South Carolina (the chairman), Howard Smith of Virginia (the veterau of the Rules Committee), John Dowdy of Texas, George Huddleston of Alabama, Basil Whitener of North Carolina, John Bell Williams of Mississippi, and so on through a lengthy roster of Southerners, who year after year prevent the passage of a bill to give the District self-government. During each Congress, the Senate, whose District Committee is dominated by liberals, invariably passes a bill...
Slowly Mellon added to this collection, although for years he concentrated on French impressionists. Then, four years ago, he began to buy English art of the period in quantity, with the help of British Art Historian Basil Taylor. Today Mellon's oils, drawings and watercolors, dating roughly from 1700 to 1850, include artists of whom even noted critics like John Ruskin and Roger Fry seemed to have been unaware. There are landscapes and animals, intimate "conversation pieces," sports pictures and seascapes as well as portraits -the entire era, in fact, tidily defined by the major artists who began...
...TURNER. While Constable, Crome and Gainsborough were painters in the rustic style, Joseph Mallord William Turner painted in what Basil Taylor calls the sublime style. With his sketchbook and a change of linen, he wandered about England looking for scenes of abstract emotion, and it has been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think...
After a state dinner that Jackie attended, the Luxembourgeois got a taste of Kennedy culture - 16th and 17th century songs performed on authentic Shakespearean instruments, and a reading of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V by Basil Rathbone. Said Rathbone later: "The President likes it and knows it by heart-which scared the daylights out of me." With the royal visit nearly over, Prince Jean was notified that his wife, Princess Josephine Charlotte, had just given birth to their fifth child. At the official leavetaking, the President could not resist whispering of the birth...