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...several levels of spacious front porches. Spaciousness was an easeful 19th century preoccupation, at least among the prosperous middle-class citizens who could afford to come here (by lake steamer in those days) and enjoy the broad verandas and 20-ft. ceilings of the Hotel Athenaeum, a splendid old yellow-and-green ark that did and still does offer two desserts with each meal. And it was a spaciousness of mind that made a summer of music, lectures and dramatic readings seem exciting, an attitude that the modern Chautauqua tries with fair success to preserve. In the early decades...
Three cheers for little Prince William Arthur Philip Louis [July 5]! It's splendid to see the British lavish all that affection on the royal family and its newest member after fighting a war that leaves a big debt...
Yastrzemski, too, says, "I never cared about being a superstar. I just wanted respect." He has also made a splendid living. His salary this year is said to be $500,000. Over the years, he could have made more. "The Red Sox have been a family-type thing to me, especially when...
...mischief-making possibilities of this splendid sidearm may have occurred to an occasional rancher's son, with dire results for rooster weather vanes and passing semitrailers. But the Nel-Spot fell among major-league upsetters of the peace last year in Gaines' Newbury, N.H., living room. He and his friends were jawing enjoyably about whether a city man, adept at taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell...
...rebel nor an outcast, least of all an astigmatic. El Greco's distortions came from his insight, not his eyesight. Earlier treatises on El Greco's paintings have tended to expatiate on the mystical side of his inspiration and the aberrant elements of his style. This splendid show, which embraces his more mundane commissions and his most grandiose projects, demonstrates that he was an extraordinary technician...