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...nation, was Protestant, pragmatic, rationalistic. Once when a customer complained that Portraitist Gilbert Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm...
...more desolate spots than the Grand Canyon's Granite Gorge, where the millracing Colorado River widens, flattens and becomes the tip of Lake Mead. The nearest town, Peach Springs (pop. 550), Ariz., is 50 miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit...
...older Steve Allen, Actor Nugent still exuded a trim, boyish charm, whether he was twitting himself, his wife ("You're not aware, not tuned to me; you don't handle me carefully") or his new dentist ("All he says is 'Hello, sit down, RINSE.' This peach-fuzz youth, with every tooth in his cheeky cheek, right off, mind you-RINSE!"). Nugent's bland mixture of pathos, petulance and salt was especially savory when he gave himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body...
...Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink of water, we had to draw it out of the well; before we ate, we knew that wood had to be chopped for the stove"-but the glory of the Old South...
...stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What's It Like in Paree? ("Is the air champagne at night?/ Is it love's domain at night?"). Next thing she knew, Barbara was taking signals behind the mike. Her peach-fuzz voice suggests a girl who has not quite got the word about Things as yet, but is gratifyingly eager to learn. Columbia has changed Barbara's name on the record from Eichbauer to Manners, and is keeping her busy at her receptionist's desk while it awaits...