Word: hunts
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...Bernini of the swells was Richard Morris Hunt (1827-95), the most influential American architect of the 19th century. The poor have always wondered how the rich live. But more to the point in America, the rich have always wondered too. Wealth on the scale of the 1880s in the U.S. was still uncharted territory. Its signs could get crossed. So the plutocrat needed an architect to create a seamless etiquette of shared ostentation, with variants, and that was what Hunt did with Newport...
...singing and playing shared a similar exuberance. Upshaw's fierce glares and terror-filled voice in "Waldgespruch" (Wood Dialogue) were playfully evocative of the Schubert Erlkoening, while Goode evoked the Liszt "Wild Jagd" transcendental etude when a line of Eichendorff's mentioned "ein lustiges Jagd," a merry hunt. The music of many of the songs demonstrated Schumann's lifelong obsession with Beethoven's "An die ferne Geliebte," the first song-cycle ever...
Even bigger losses are thought to result because money is diverted from productive investment and paid to lawyers and accountants who hunt for ways to escape or minimize the tax. The heirs to enormous fortunes, of course, can do this better than nonplutocrats. And so the tax has never broken up concentrations of wealth the way the legislators who enacted it in 1916 hoped it would...
...infrequent calendrical events: overblown and unsatisfying in equal proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th anniversary of Woodstock or the death of Jackie O., you'll love 2000. Merchandisers are horning in too: La-Z-Boy offers Millennia office chairs (the "tie-in," a La-Z-Boy executive offers, is that the chairs have "a very contemporary look"), while Elizabeth...
...selection committee included Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, vocal coach and voice teacher Bonnie Raphael, Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas...