Word: gie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When frazzled Manhattan subway riders gasp and sigh, it is almost inevitably because of the cloacal stench and spine-crushing lack of charm that characterize the system. Not so in Par is, where ever since World War II the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens has been enthusiastically refurbishing the Métro. Last week the latest renovated subway station opened, this one at the Louvre. Parisian eyes popped...
...Giftie Gie...
...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...
...cover story on the President (May 1). During a talk with Lady Bird at the White House, Writer Johnson asked how she felt about being the subject of a TIME cover story, and she admitted having "some trepidations" but philosophically quoted Bobby Burns: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Artist Boris Artzybasheff saw Lady Bird partly through her name and designed as a fitting background to her portrait a strong and stylish Artzybird...
...counsel of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropoyich, he made his cello concerto one of his loveliest works. Here it is impeccably performed by Erich Leinsdorf, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cellist Samuel Mayes in a recording that also includes Gabriel Fauré's noble little Élēgie...