Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starred in Bourbon Street Beat...
...dominated by luxury-loving Bourbon France, and its real mirror was its applied arts. Cabinetmakers produced carved and inlaid furniture, which they were entitled to sign, like artists. Porcelain factories turned out incense burners shaped like snails or elephants, tulip stands decorated with genre scenes. Yet, while artisans were elevated to the status of artists, painters often became as subservient as craftsmen. The vast majority of oils, watercolors and drawings made by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau and Nattier to decorate boudoirs and gaming rooms were skillful but skin-deep pictures of pretty ladies, handsome gallants and idyllic landscapes...
When Louis XVI succeeded Louis XV in 1774, the rococo was superseded by the neoclassical mode, an improbable amalgam of Roman severity and Bourbon frivolity exemplified by the small writing desk that stands between two tapestry-covered Louis XV armchairs. The desk's spare lines are in conflict with the riot of gilded tassels, leaves, garlands and mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon...
...Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew out the candles. It was 7 a.m. before Princess Irene of The Netherlands and Spain's Prince Carlos de Bourbon accepted a cup of coffee and called it a night...
After his two terms as a progressive, popular Governor, the New England liberal came to Washington with an understanding of legislative procedure that served him well in skirmishes against the Bourbon craftsmen of the Senate's Southern bloc. In 1966, when Lyndon Johnson's Model Cities proposal was foundering, Muskie called the White House and explained why he felt the bill could not be passed as drafted. He then set to work hammering out an acceptable substitute, which he later guided to passage with a combination of eloquence and parliamentary skill. "The pages of history are full of the tales...