Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Thanom Kittikachorn, 54, who was Sarit's deputy and took over after him in 1963 as Premier. Field Marshal Thanom has continued Sarit's basic policies of national development, anti-Communism and friendship with the free world. But his personal style is a bit different: a quiet homebody...
There was a curtained irony to the whole affair. For months, Moscow had watched with glee as Charles de Gaulle hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of...
Phillips had a special feeling for the artists of his own time, early bought John Marin, financed U.S. Abstractionist Arthur Dove with a monthly check from the 1930s to the artist's death in 1946. In later years, Phillips' taste moved on to such U.S. moderns as Pollock...
The son of a Cleveland interior designer, Rorimer combined a taste for architecture and a liking for the decorative arts. As a boy, he made a candlestick on his own lathe; as a freshman at Harvard ('27), he had already begun collecting rare Rhodian pottery. At the Met, he...
This cruelly candid self-assessment appears in the remembrance of his nephew Robin, who is himself a novelist (The Servant, The Slaves of Timbuktu). And although the effect is morbid, it is by far the best part of the book, which is otherwise devoted to a soporific account of the...