Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg...
...Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg...
...prospect of a floating sculpture is particularly pleasing for Grosvenor because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches...
...dialogue shines on every page, and the ease with which he routes characters on and off the scene amounts to sleight of hand. But what gives the book its real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman has collected people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo appearances. Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Max Reinhardt, and several society beauties...
...Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...