Word: elegante
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Founded after the Civil War by a Union general as a refined refuge for the well-heeled, Colorado Springs (pop. 259,000) has long enticed tourists with attractions like Pikes Peak Highway and the elegant Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations...
Despite Mountbatten's massive size, the evenhanded narrative moves with enormous grace and wit. This affectionate character study of a nearly extinct species can also be read as a fascinating gloss on World War II, or as a social history of wealth and privilege in decline. It was privilege, in...
The Smiths are not a pretty sight either; maybe that is why only study working-class types appear on their album covers. Four uncharismatic youths from Manchester fronted by an ascetic-looking vegetarian with a voice like a choir boy crossed with Slim Whitman, the Smiths burst out in '84...
Serious questions remained, however. Why, for example, were extinctions so selective, devastating some species while leaving others virtually unscathed? Try as they might, scientists could not devise a single elegant theory to tie the loose ends together. They were about to get what they asked for, but like the British...
STUDENTS OF history often gloss over 18th century England. T.S. Eliot dismissed it as an age of retired country clergymen and schoolmasters, while that consummate Victorian Matthew Arnold condescendingly termed it. The elegant and indispensable 18th century. Sure, there were plenty of quaint leisurely settings in 18th century England but...