Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The figure of 36 millionaires is a somewhat misleading statistic. Thousands of Britons still live in a style many a highly paid U.S. executive might envy. They maintain elegant town houses in London and comfortable country estates staffed with servants, drive Bentleys or have themselves driven in Rolls-Royces (price...
Died. Walter Edwin ("The Professor") Peck, 62, onetime authority on English poets, turned leading intellectual of Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at...
First with the Best. It was not always so. The Jesuits had no permanent headquarters in England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800...
"Asking nature the right question in the right way-or recognizing a theoretical pattern in a tangled skein of experimental data-often has the effect of introducing an element of beauty and elegance into the scientist's work. Do we not, on occasion, refer to a 'beautiful theory...
Rejuvenating as Juscelino's shot-in-the-arm may be for the rundown economy of his whole state, its most startling results strike the eye in Minas' young capital city of Belo Horizonte. It was laid out just 60 years ago as a Washington-like model city on...