Word: rustic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...estate, read a news item saying that the Lakes of Killarney were for sale. He flew to Ireland, looked over the 30 page, 2 ft.-by-3 ft. parchment deed written in Latin during the reign of Charles I (1625-49). Then, after pledging that he would maintain the rustic tradition of Killarney and continue to permit the public to enjoy the property, Robertson paid a reported $252,000 to become owner of 14th century Ross Castle, the ancient Abbey of Saint Finian, Kenmare House, two lakes, 60 islands...
...Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors and guests: Russian...
...Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing. All this might just get by were the parties more festive; but despite plenty of good dance music, Fella offers remarkably commonplace dancing...
...Berlin there is no spot better suited to the Hitchcock scheme of things than a rustic, semi-deserted corner known on the U.S. side as Rudow and in the Russian zone, just over the way, as Alt-Glienicke. Self-important ducks and chickens strut like commissars in Alt-Glienicke's cobbled streets. Berlin's only working windmill turns lazily in the breeze near by, and close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings...