Word: gorgeousity
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Died. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, 85, longtime (1913-45) astronomer at the University of Virginia, who calculated the distances to 1,800 stars, in a lifetime traveled 90,000 miles for advantageous looks at the "most gorgeous spectacle in science"-the solar eclipse; in Bloomington...
FLORIDE CALHOUN was a proud and fiery Charleston aristocrat, and her Southern pride may well have cost John C. Calhoun the presidency. When Peggy O'Neill ("The Gorgeous Hussy") Eaton, the Irish barmaid who had married the Secretary of War, came calling, she was received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice...
...especially the men--John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly witty, and the only really unqualified success are Leo van Witsen's gorgeous clothes, whose rococo sometimes borders on the fantastic...
...stepbrother, a slim, sardonic man with a tomcat's morals and the face of a ''boy film-star." The end is total humiliation for Rita. Women, generally, have a bad time. Our Bovary tells of Sonia Smith, who looks like a dahlia, "large, top-heavy, gorgeous," and who gets satisfaction neither from her small husband nor her stiflingly small home town. South African Author Gordimer, 35, who is a tiny, finely made woman herself, often seems appalled by the size and beefiness of her fellow countrymen-matrons with "goose-fleshed, quaking red arms," and large, blond, blue...
...wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss "of a soft emerald that beds your eye as reposefully as the greens in a Giorgione or Bonifazio...