Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Nicholas Boylston endowed a chair in rhetoric and oratory at Harvard with ?.1,500 in 1771, its ten distinguished holders, starting with John Quincy Adams, have been charged to pursue excellence "in the theory and practice of writing and speaking well, that is, with method, elegance, harmony, dignity...
Prince & Swan. If this were not enough, Nureyev has been further blessed with a classic partner-Dame Margot Fonteyn, long the reigning ballerina of the Western world. Since they teamed up on the stage of the Royal Ballet three seasons ago, a mystique has grown up around them that rivals...
In richly varied, stylishly photographed settings that effuse the florid flavor of the period, the writing-directing team of Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa brings to the foreground an impoverished layabout named Meo (Paolo Ferrari). Meo bungles his way into the Vatican vocal conservatory that separates the boys from the...
Discharging the commission proved difficult in one respect. "Max's life was so uneventful," Biographer Cecil soon discovered, "that it is almost impossible to make a story of it." Max took the role of elegant bystander, frequenting the best tables, polishing a few literary trifles, contentedly obscure in the...
To fill their large rotating exhibition space, Brown has whipped up a schedule for the remainder of 1965 that crackles like a roman candle. And as the new museum opened to the public, there was already talk that it was obsolescent. Actually, it is more than talk; the building was...