Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion . . .
Married. Sumner Welles, 59, elegant onetime Under Secretary of State (1937-43), a chief architect of the Good Neighbor policy, author on foreign relations (The Time for Decision, Seven Decisions That Shaped History); and Mrs. Harriette A. Post, 57, Manhattan socialite; both for the third time; in Manhattan.
Light, gay and elegant for its full three hours, it was the best production the Met has put on in a decade. Così has usually been more of a festival favorite than a standard repertory piece. In making a smashing new hit for itself, the Met has also clearly...
Printed on softly highlighted gold chloride paper, the photographs showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the...
Vengeance, Fate, Evil. The betrothed of Manzoni's title are two young Italian peasants, Renzo and Lucia, who lived near Milan in the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In the very choice of such a hero & heroine, Manzoni kicked over the elegant traces that had...