Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midsummer Night's Dream proved to be first-rate spectacle and only intermittently good dance. The sets, by Designer David Hays, were superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as...
Nicholas Longworth, a Cincinnati Republican, married "Princess Alice" Roosevelt, Teddy's daughter. He was an elegant, scrupulously fair presiding officer, and a skilled parliamentarian who won friends on both sides of the aisle and prestige for the House through his assumption that all Representatives were as honorable and gentlemanly...
He travels when and where he chooses, improvises on State Department orders, even ignores them if he feels they are ill advised. "A calculated risk," he says, "is what they say in Washington when they mean, 'I don't think this will work, but don't blame...
With a curtsy to the newly garment-conscious District of Columbia, the New York Couture Group again crowned Jacqueline Kennedy as the best-dressed woman in the world, and for the first time welcomed into its top twelve her sister. Princess Stanislas Radziwill, and her Palm Beach-Manhattan shopping consort...
Her drawing teacher was Kandinsky, a former Moscow economics professor who had left Russia with his young wife to escape the stifling atmosphere of the Czarist regime. Since he had a substantial income, Kandinsky treated art as a hobby. He was a gifted and elegant dilettante with a penchant for...