Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponent of established values, playing the part of a secular and reproachful cleric. This Socratic role has always been one essential function of the intellectual, but only in recent times has it come to be looked on as the only function; a great many intellectuals today demand their daily cup of instant hemlock...
...most people, Wedgwood is just their cup of tea. The name of the British pottery firm, founded in 1759, connotes what Steuben does to glass or Gobelin to tapestries. Today Wedgwood, under the direction of the founder's great-great-great-grandson, has kept pace with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings...
...famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase supposedly made in Alexandria in 50 A.D. Last year a rare slate-blue Portland vase sold at auction for $8,600. Josiah would get $1.50 for a fine jasper cup and saucer; today it would sell for one hundred times as much...
FRED: It's still light enough to see by. Want another cup of coffee before they take it away...
...another cup of coffee, will...