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...beauty and understanding to America were invited in and honored. Of the twelve recipients of the National Medal of Arts, six were unable to attend, but their daughters, sons, cousins and friends stepped up for them. Their achievements had preceded them long ago. The recipients were predominantly creators: Contralto Marian Anderson, Filmmaker Frank Capra, Composer Aaron Copland, Painter Willem de Kooning, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, Folklorist Alan Lomax, Critic Lewis Mumford and Novelist Eudora Welty. But also on hand were some who gave generously to encourage such work: Houston Art Patron Dominique de Menil, Seymour Knox...
...made something new. Boorstin looked at the gentle folks who came to the East Room to receive the new medal and mused on the special ingredients of creators. "The most important thing a government can do is foster the freedom in which the unexpected can happen," he said. Marian Anderson's voice rose from a humble church choir in Philadelphia. Frank Capra, an Italian immigrant, turned film into art when he made Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and You Can't Take It with...
Javits' wife Marian decided early on that Washington was a Government "company town" and refused to live there, pursuing instead her interest in the arts in New York City. This arrangement led to an unconventional marriage, which Javits described as "two lives interacting and intersecting but not congruent." The discovery in 1979 of Javits' illness, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, led to a new dependence on his wife and also to a final career crisis. Even after losing the Republican nomination to Alfonse D'Amato, the eternal public man refused to retire and insisted on running for a fifth...
...organization has claimed responsibility for the home-made bomb, said Marian Martell, a spokesman for the joint investigation by Boston police...
...largest East-West spy swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer...