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Back in the Eisenhower era, as one undergraduate put it, Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain...
...three years and more, the star-director and his ragtag band of actors hopscotched the Mediterranean, shooting a sequence whenever a few Eurodollars turned up. Notes Welles biographer Frank Brady: "A Tuscan stairway and a Moorish battlement are in the film, both appearing as parts of a single room. Roderigo kicks Cassio in Massaga and gets punched back in Orgete, a thousand miles away...
Upon entering the club's Member's Lounge, one immediately notices the ancient decor. The wood paneling recalls "the olde days," and antique posters and yellowed photographs of past members grace the walls. A large sign hangs on the stairway landing, boasting the number of U.S. presidents who are former members, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy...
...THEME PARK is complete without a ride or two. Old Quebec has its "Founiculaire," a sort of outdoor elevator that travels by rope from the hotel to the street below. Although the two-minute trip costs at least a dollar, and the stairway to the town center isn't very long, the lines for the Founiculair often run around the block...
Davis' rise from the stairway is achieved now, but it was slow. When American Modernism triumphed, from about 1960 on, it did so largely without Davis: its beneficiaries were the Abstract Expressionists, and later the Pop artists. Davis' pragmatism, the empirical and logical qualities of his work that seem so admirable now and connect him back to the best strain in 19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American...