Word: edward
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GERALD F. MULLER St. Edward's University Austin, Texas
What else could be expected when the President throws a party in the White House for one of the greatest figures of American jazz, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington? Presenting Ellington with the Medal of Freedom on his 70th birthday-the first such award in the new Administration-Nixon said: "In the royalty of American music, no man swings more or stands higher than the Duke." The Duke responded by bussing the startled President twice on each cheek...
...frequently applied on the basis of fashion, folklore and snobbery. An invisible admissions committee rules out most conservatives-except, perhaps, a William F. Buckley or a Milton Friedman. "Liberal" and "intellectual" are thought to meld nicely. Among scientists, for example, Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer met the test, but Conservative Edward Teller did not. If nothing else, Viet Nam has provided a handy screening device. Opposition to the war has clinched the intellectual standing of Senator J. William Fulbright and perhaps even of Dr. Spock. War supporters who have been drummed out of the fraternity include Dean Rusk, John Roche...
...prepared for the job by studying for three years with the legendary Bernard Berenson in Italy. He helped "B.B." to prepare his definitive Italian Painters of the Renaissance, a background that proved invaluable when he joined the new National Gallery as curator at its founding under then Director David Edward Finley. When Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and others offered their collections to the new gallery, it fell to Walker to make selections from them and to authenticate debated pictures. Walker became director himself in 1956; during his term, he almost doubled the gallery's holdings, acquiring...
WASHINGTON--Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) said yesterday that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) is the current most likely winner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination...