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WHAT would you call a woman who drinks beer, drives a locomotive, or walks a lion on a leash down the street in Boston? Liberated? Pretentious? Health nut? Isabella Stewart Gardner did all these things in Boston in the 1890's; she was cheered, jeered, envied and snubbed. This unusual woman viewed the streets of Cambridge and Boston as canals leading to her inside-out, quasi-Venetian palace just across from the Museum of Fine Arts, on the Fens of Boston. With a mere handkerchief she outbid Europe for a Vermeer, and with her husband's shipping fortune she bought...
...professor like Charles Eliot Norton was a good friend to have, not only for Isabella Stewart Gardner but for Bernard Berenson. It was due to Norton's suggestion that Belle Gardner started collecting rare books and manuscripts instead of gowns and jewels, and it was Norton who got a group of wealthy Bostonians to finance a traveling fellowship for Berenson when he lost the Parker Fellowship in 1887 to another Harvard student...
...When I appeared in the earlier version of Wuthering Heights, Laurence Olivier's Heathcliff rejected me, and my heart was broken. Now, thanks to the photograph TIME ran with its review of the new Wuthering Heights [March 1], my heart is mended. You show Geraldine Fitzgerald's Isabella with Olivier, not Merle Oberon's Cathy, as you identified her in your caption...
...unlikely that any major enterprise was ever undertaken without an expert arguing conclusively that it would not succeed. At the behest of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, a panel of Spanish sages looked at Columbus' plan for a voyage to the Indies, and in 1490 came up with six good reasons why it was impossible. So many centuries after the creation, they concluded triumphantly, it was unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value. This negative reaction was similar to the learned argument that greeted Galileo when he reported that Jupiter had moons. "Jupiter...
When he finally made the Tonight Show, he remembered all his own rules as he rendered his version of the discovery of America. Chris warns Isabella, "If I don't discover America, there ain't gonna BE no Ray Charles." Isabella then shrieks in the now-famous falsetto, "Chris gonna FIND Ray Charles." Since then Flip has sharpened and refined his style, which leans primarily on storytelling and body action rather than zingy punch lines. Even with all of the mugging, eye rolling and Negro dialect, Wilson's routines are inoffensive and totally devoid of racial rancor...