Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH SERIOUSNESS. Matthew Arnold, you remember, said the greatest art displayed a High Seriousness. That's not to exclude the serious masquerading as comic, or even the outright Slapstick farcical comic. It may not be the greatest art, Arnold said, but we-all-love-a-good-joke-hey-boys...
...hush settled over the blasted land scape at 10 p.m. on July 27, 1953. General Matthew Ridgway, commander of the United Nations forces, later recalled that "there was no wild celebrating or fraternizing such as had marked the end of other wars." Men slumped wearily around a bottle of whisky or tried the unusual sensation of standing upright without flinching. Thus, after two years and 17 days of simultaneous fighting and negotiating, the Korean War came to an end just 15 years ago this week. The U.S. suffered 140,000 casualties, including 34,000 dead, in the more than three...
...done. Shakespeare took the names of the king and lords from four actual participants in the contemporary French civil war. And he made reference to an intellectual coterie that included Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, the 9th Earl of Northumberland, Matthew Roydon, and George Chapman--of whom you're lucky to have heard of more than...
...gathering last week was characteristic of a great family that has all the money it will ever need. One young Mellon flew in from Bombay, where he had been hunting tigers, and will shortly return to his real job of collecting wild animals in Kenya. Dr. Matthew T. Mellon, a retired art-history professor who, at 71, is the eldest male in the U.S. branch of the family, stayed with the Duke of Abercorn - which is more than his grandparents ever did. Dr. Mellon has not been in Pittsburgh for years; he has houses in Jamaica, Kitzbuhel and Manhattan...
...field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...