Word: kenneth
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These distortions matter because they imply that Jefferson's experience of the visual arts was much wider than it really was. He did not have the automatic overview of a modern museumgoer; nor was he a kind of Yankee Kenneth Clark, mellifluously discoursing among the servants and mockingbirds of Monticello. He believed, correctly, that he was an instrument of history; but he did not imagine himself as a character in a cultural saga. Jef ferson's tough, ambitious self-teaching, in all its patchiness, cannot have been the smooth inheritance of masterpieces that his show suggests...
Former Congressman Kenneth Gray, 51, an Illinois Democrat, was one of Ray's patrons until he turned her over to Hays. According to congressional sources, Gray is talking to authorities and offering cooperation with an FBI investigation. Subject: the possible misuse of public funds for sex by Congressmen and Senators. Gray retired from Congress in 1974 after suffering a heart attack. A married man, he was famed on Capitol Hill for his assortment of girls. He also kept a 55-ft. houseboat on the Potomac River for the use of business and congressional colleagues who could be helpful...
ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Maps selection and commentary by Kenneth Nebenzahl, text by Don Higginbotham. 218 pages. Rand McNally. $35. For the armchair strategist who cannot visit the battlefields, or for anyone who simply wonders where all the shooting was, detailed maps drawn at the time are the only satisfactory way to get one's bearings. In this broad, rich book, Cartography Expert Nebenzahl has collected 54 maps of battle sites and cities, seacoasts and ship-filled harbors, and reproduced them in full color at great size (some map spreads are 15 in. by 20 in.). Beautiful, faithful...
...ever done. "We are of Africa and our destiny is in Africa, nowhere else," Vorster declared in an epochal "crossroads" speech two years ago, announcing Pretoria's readiness for political accommodation and economic cooperation with Africa's black nations. Vorster's speech moved Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, a black, to exclaim: "This is the voice of reason for which the world has been waiting...
...television sponsor, Xerox Corp. has made an exemplary name for itself through its support of such admirable programs as Alistair Cooke's America and Kenneth Clark's Civilisation. Last winter Xerox decided that nothing would be more natural than to copy the process. It sponsored "the first Xerox special in print"−Pulitzer prize-winner Harrison E. Salisbury's Travels through America, a 23-page personal essay that appeared in the February issue of Esquire, sandwiched between two low-key Xerox ads that explained the innovation. Last week the first Xerox special somewhat embarrassingly turned...