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(Mrs.) Myrna M. Oliver
Standing before Van Dyck's work, as a patron wrote to him, one felt "the Luck to be astonish'd in the righte Place." The current exhibition of Van Dyck's English portraits, organized by Art Historian Oliver Millar at the National Portrait Gallery in London, shows...
The blast, part of a crescendo of new violence in Ulster, provoked a furious reaction. In Ulster's recently formed assembly, which is still being boycotted by Roman Catholic parties, the mood among Protestants was grim. "We want to see the men responsible for this evil deed exterminated," said...
The same old thing was traditional New Orleans jazz, and Sheik was one of maybe a dozen men who had been playing it since the century was young. While many famous players like King Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong headed north in the 1920s, scores of other local musicians remained...
A word, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "is the skin of a living thought." The flesh of slang is a little weaker than usual now. Why? For several reasons. Perhaps slang follows the economy and now finds itself a bit recessed.