Word: dublin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
...victory in the Oxford-Cambridge meet with a spectacular 1:48 880 in the British nationals in July. Since Colburn was wearing a Harvard jersey in that race, official word has it that that time will be accepted as a university record. And then the next week, in Dublin, Ireland, Colburn upset the former Villanova star, IC4A champion, and Olympic finalist Noel Carroll, running a 1:49.1 half to whip the Irishman in his home town...
...DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose...
...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...
...because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts, the Rotunda, Leinster House (where the Parliament now sits) are monuments to a gracious age. Even the railway stations, when at last the railway came, are beautiful. Dublin, too, has some horrendous slums, but from them emerge some of the most beautiful-and dirty-children in Europe...