Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge's father George, a poet† whom Theodore Roosevelt called a "genius" and Historian Henry Adams remembered as "the best and finest product of my time," died when Lodge was seven, and thereafter the boy was guided by his grandfather and namesake, the elegant and scholarly U.S. Senator...
The shrewdness, bravery and romanticism of such escapades Nelson wore through life like his own elegant uniforms. He served as a ship's captain at 20, and soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his...
Abbey is less flamboyant, depends on an occasional shimmy of her spangled hips or a body-shaping gesture of her hands to prime her audience for her blues-tinted ballads -Yon Do Something to Me, Fools Rush In, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. In Detroit...
In the Isenheim, Griinewald (real name: Mathis Gothardt Niethardt) reached a peak in his ability to give body to the high mysticism and passionate urgency of his time. He rendered the Christ crucified as a scarred and broken figure, his lifeless head pierced with grotesque thorns. The attendant figures sustain...
Now that he is doing huge pieces for important buildings, Sandy Calder suggests that he has changed direction. "After the Idlewild mobile," he said last week, "I couldn't conceive of small things." Then he reached for a strand of copper wire, quickly twisted it into a graceful, elegant...