Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...origins and his own mellowing, has been unable to shake entirely the opportunist's image. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 59, a megamillionaire via the Rockefellers, a political patrician through the Aldriches; a Republican brought into public life by F.D.R.; a man of charm and assurance who got on a silver platter the early prominence that Nixon had to claw for, who wandered away from a Republican Administration rather than be frustrated by it, who eschewed the easy life for elective politics and then turned into a blintz-eating back-slapping vote catcher...
Well-placed observers maintained that the star of The Silver Chalice and Rally Round the Flag, Boys spent most of the evening chewing...
...grew up. Not only did he make it big in New York's arty circles, but he got to use his name to do an exciting experimentation with every medium he could touch. Everything he does (exhibiting six huge self-portraits at Expo 67, or dying his hair silver, or even sending someone who looks like his twin to do a lecture tour for him) is designed to test our sensibilities, change our perspectives, put us on. Pop Art (one of Warhol's babies) may be dead, but the girl next to me at Winthrop House still showed...
Harvard's amazing racquetmen walked off with every piece of silver they could get their hands on this weekend at the National Intercollegiate Four-Man Championships...
What dealt a death blow to the mestizo tradition was the introduction of cheap chrome lithographs in the 19th century. At the same time, as silver became scarcer and more expensive, the lower classes increasingly turned to chinaware and crockery. Early mestizo art became a collector's item, disappeared into wealthy homes, or was guarded by churches and convents. Many objects in the Smithsonian exhibition are being loaned for the first time in centuries. After the Metropolitan's showing, the exhibition will be put on view in Lima, enabling Peruvians to rediscover the full range of their forefathers...