Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: The fine rhetoric of your charitable review of Burton's Hamlet obscures the degree to which Burton's talents have been misused and misapplied in this production. This is not an intellectual's Hamlet, but a dilettante's. It is not drama at all, but...
No African nation boasts a more elegant capital or a more mellifluously named ruler than the Ivory Coast. President Félix Houphouet-Boigny dwells in a $12 million palace resplendent with 52 types of marble and an air-conditioned wine cellar. The French government spends $50 million a year...
Avoiding Pedagogy. Botticelli, like a good Old Master, built his works up painstakingly from "cartoons," or planned-out sketches, of his subjects. Often the structure is artfully veiled. In what is graceful enough to avoid pedagogy, Ortman pierces Botticelli's elegant illusion. He analyzes the exacting geometry which the...
With this epigram from the unfashionable poet Rudyard Kipling carved in its marble-slathered lobby, the U.S.'s newest museum throws down an elegant gauntlet at the feet of all that has been fashionable in recent art. The challenger is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 52, who considers abstract...
> Common life is a blessed thing: "I took the regular train home, looking out of the window at a peaceable landscape and a spring evening, and it seemed to me that fishermen and lone bathers and grade-crossing watchmen and sand-lot ballplayers and lovers unashamed of their sport and...