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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carlo, third Prince of Venosa, eighth Count of Consa, 15th Lord of Gesualdo, etc., etc., was content with the carefree luxury that befell his lot as a second son. He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer. Of an evening, he would put to sea with one of his poet friends, and spend the night improvising songs and madrigals. He might have sung away his whole life, but his elder brother died when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Mad Madrigalist | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...pleased with the resulting design. "I think the outstanding thing about it is its calmness and serenity, which an Indian building should have," says Architect Stone. "Frank Lloyd Wright, who never seems to like anybody else's work, told me that this was one of the finest buildings in the last hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Taj Mahal Modern | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...smooth richness in the gullet. The secret goes back to 1866, when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest white corn, the best rye, barley malt, both fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Sippin1 Whisky | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...John or Bobby or Tommy or Donald−come completely alive, showing men at their best. Dug in among the wild rhododendron bushes, outgunned, outnumbered and outmortared, the West Kents put on a memorable show: at the end it is clear that men can be pitiable even in their finest hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The l-Wallah's Story | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...finest portion of the film was the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening makeup, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing were worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the outcome in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Aeschylus' "Oresteia" | 8/16/1956 | See Source »

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