Word: lightheartedness
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Eleven years ago Dong Kingman confessed that he often dreamed of Hong Kong, his boyhood home, and that he would like to go back and "see if the dream is right." An around-the-world lecture tour sponsored by the State Department gave Artist Kingman his first opportunity, and increasing...
With the ante-bellum plantation mansion, the Old South evolved an ideal house for leisurely and elegant living. Rooms were high, with tall windows that could be opened to the breezes; the broad verandas, ennobled by stately Grecian porticoes, were a prototype of indoor-outdoor living. The New South, too...
*The tradition goes back to Chester A. Arthur, who called on Operatic Soprano Adelina Patti. Teddy Roosevelt gave weekly musicales for as many as 500 guests, invited such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once...
The changes those years have wrought in American painting were made dramatically clear by the shows. In Manhattan, the standout exhibits were Seth Eastman's Lacrosse Playing Among the Sioux Indians and Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo -both brown, spacious, romantic and unabashedly illustrative. The...
Furor in Amman. This lighthearted mood soon passed: the Bedouin-led Jordanian army, which had been poised outside the city in case trouble started in the King's absence, now wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the...