Word: forde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War I was a time of both modernism and nostalgia. Americans were exhilarated by a sense of the new but also yearned for the traditional. In the '20s newly minted products were routinely labeled STRICTLY AMERICAN. Collecting Americana -- "antiqueering," as it was known -- become a national hobby. Henry Ford filled warehouses with what he called "American stuff": Duncan Phyfe tables, endless volumes of McGuffey Readers and Thomas Edison memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring research into...
Liam T.A. Ford '91-'92 is a beekeeper in his spare time. He dresses mostly in black, and a little yellow--no, make that orange...
Wednesday: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, at 3, 7:40 p.m. Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfus, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon...
Interview conducted by Liam T.A. Ford...
Pilbeam, who is also Ford professor of anthropology, will return full-time to that department the fall...