Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"He will do drawings," wrote De Kooning's friend and biographer, Critic Thomas B. Hess, "on transparent tracing paper, scatter them one on top of the other, study the composite drawing that appears on top, make a drawing from this, reverse it, tear it in half, and put it...
Whitlam belatedly came up with an anti-inflation program of his own, but many middle-class people in Sydney or Melbourne, who see only higher prices in the supermarket and steeper mortgage rates for new houses, may blame him nonetheless. Beyond that, some Australians who were initially attracted by Whitlam...
¶The sport of kings has been cruel to Jockey Mary Bacon, 25. In the five years that she has worn silks, Mary has broken her back twice, been kidnaped by a race-track "Johnny" and shot at. When Michigan's Hazel Park ruled in 1972 that Mary and...
The spectacle that Heilbroner's thesis represents is almost as distressing as his prospect for the race. Here is no Spengler taking a sardonic pleasure in declines and falls. Here is a man of practical intelligence and good will, a man equipped by temperament and upbringing to hope. Yet...
The Dorian-whose members range in age from 36 to 41-evolved from a group formed during the 1961 summer season at Tanglewood. Since then, shifts in personnel (only Taylor, who left the New York City Opera orchestra for the Dorian, is a survivor of the original unit) have entailed...