Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glory of New York is its museums. Highlights: the Metropolitan's special shows-Chinese landscape paintings, Goyas on loan from the Prado, the great Norbert Schimmel collection of ancient art. The Museum of Modern Art displays ideal taxis, the Whitney offers "200 Years of American Sculpture" and the Guggenheim Museum has its whole collection of early 20th century European paintings from 1880-1945 on view. And where else, in the same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection...
...visual resources of Jefferson's Virginian education must have been; his own remark on local architecture in 1781, that "the first principles of the art are unknown," is borne out in other fields by the stiff, crude society portraits of the young colony. The show traces the neoclassical ideal forming in Jefferson's ideals and tastes-the growing certainty that republicanism was a function of natural law, that a new age of civic virtue was dawning and that an art of reasoned severity and correct classical proportion was needed to embody it. As William Howard Adams writes...
While Glover and Anderson steal some scenes, James Valentine as "Gentlemanly Johnny" Burgoyne steals the show. The part of Burgoyne--a supercilious aristocrat straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan--is an ideal comic showcase, and Valentine makes the most of it, eliciting a laugh a line. Mugging outrageously and delivering his lines with superb timing, Valentine etches a sharp portrait of a British general with the humanity to rejoice in a defeat that prevents murder...
...signed the Declaration of Independence. Countless thousands of heirs of the signers are scattered throughout the nation, and TIME has interviewed a representative dozen of them. In their politics and professions, their attainments and attitudes, they are diverse, but they share many common opinions. All passionately support the ideal of democratic government, while recognizing the imperfections of the government they have. Some of their views about the nation and what they believe their illustrious ancestors would feel if they stepped out of a time machine and could see America today...
Much is at stake in New York. And while it is a logical place for the British to attack, it is a less than ideal place for Washington to defend. One difficulty is the nature of the New Yorkers themselves. Colonel Knox, a Bostonian, has described them as "magnificent in their pride and conceit, which is inimitable; in the want of principle, which is prevalent; in their Toryism, which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes...