Word: rusticating
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...accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence. But it is in his role as the able military planner who helped map the great campaigns...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). In "The Joke and the Valley," Dean Stockwell is an idealistic stranger, Thomas Mitchell and Keenan Wynn the rustic pranksters. Justice triumphs. Color...
...base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions in a Florentine palace. In subject, the galaxy includes saints and schoolboys, allegories and rustic landscapes, anatomical studies and exquisite faces...
...Many of the drawings are rooted in time through subject and costume. But some are amazingly modern, such as the watercolor of a gate near a 17th century Roman villa that is so filled with blinding light that its details are seen as in an overexposed photograph. It is rustic yet somehow eerie, the perfect expression of Artist Salvator Rosa, who confessed himself in search of an "extravagant mixture of the horrid and of the domestic, of the plain and of the precipice," which artists centuries later are still seeking...
...special dignity that accrues to old men who have long exercised power in causes greater than their own ambitions. Both are gruff on the surface, kind underneath. They were country boys, raised on farms, and they still, whenever they can get out of Washington, instinctively head for rustic serenity-the Rayburn cattle ranch near Bonham, Texas or the Smith dairy farm near Broad Run, Va. They grew up, pinched by poverty, in a South still seething with Civil War hatreds and sunk in economic misery...